Edit directly in cell

This policy setting sets the "Edit directly in cell" option found under File tab | Options | Advanced | Editing Options.

If you enable or do not configure this policy setting, Excel will allow editing directly in the cell This is the default behavior.

If you disable this policy setting, Excel will not allow editing to be done directly in the cell.

Supported on: At least Windows 7

Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Pathsoftware\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\excel\options\binaryoptions
Value Namefnoincell_66_1
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled Value0
Disabled Value1

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