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.

Supported on: At least Windows 7

Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Pathsoftware\policies\microsoft\office\15.0\excel\options\binaryoptions
Value Namefnodragwarning_76_1
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled Value0
Disabled Value1

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