Policy

Alert before overwriting cells

This policy setting sets the "Alert before overwriting cells" option found under File tab | Options | Advanced | Editing Options. If you enable or do not configure this policy setting, Excel will give a warning if cells are about to be overwritten. This is the default behavior. If you disable this policy setting, Excel will suppress the warning that cells are about to be overwritten.

Policy
PackMicrosoft Office
CategoryMicrosoft Excel 2016 / Excel Options / Advanced
Policy ID36ecda4a332f
Internal nameL_Alertbeforeoverwritingcells

Registry

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HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\excel\options\binaryoptions\fnodragwarning_76_1 (enabled) = 0
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\excel\options\binaryoptions\fnodragwarning_76_1 (disabled) = 1

Policy notes

This policy setting sets the "Alert before overwriting cells" option found under File tab | Options | Advanced | Editing Options. If you enable or do not configure this policy setting, Excel will give a warning if cells are about to be overwritten. This is the default behavior. If you disable this policy setting, Excel will suppress the warning that cells are about to be overwritten.

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