excel 2007 appends to conditional format rules

n0gel

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Good morning forum,
The company I work for has a wonderful IT dept and we are just starting to use Office 2007. Excel 10 was a trusted old friend, and I miss it tremendously. Anyway, excel 2007 appends conditional formating rules to existing rules on paste (whether or not they are before or after the existing rules doesn't matter), it adds to the existing rules. It doesn't always do it, but when it does, among other things, you get a loss of functionality warning when saving to an .xls file because you exceeded the number of rules allowed (obviously not in all cases). This is a major headache for me. I've seen only a couple of postings on this, like from Andrew Poulsom, but no answers. Anyone know of an easy button to get around this behavior?
 

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This problem is addressed by MS here for the record for those who come after:

Conditional formatting rules are duplicated when you copy and then paste cells in Excel 2007

Article ID: 973823 - Last Review: September 23, 2009 - Revision: 1.0
Apply the following hotfix:

973932 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973932/ ) Description of the Excel 2007 hotfix package (Excel-x-none.msp, Xlconv-x-none.msp): August 25, 2009
 
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