Data Menu not available (grayed out) in Excel 2007…
Posted by Cliff on 8/13/08
Just a quick one, I was playing around with endless Excel sheets yesterday and wanted to perform some filtering but for some strange reason all items in the quick access toolbar under “Data” were not available to me. They were simply greyed out all the time.
After a relatively short but frustrating search for a reason I noticed that it said [Group] up in the title bar after the file name.
Now group mode is very useful when you are editing several worksheets at once, all changes you make to one worksheet are made to all others in the group as well, but certain functions, such as all “Data” tools are disabled.
So, how to turn off group mode? Simple, just right-click any of the sheet tabs in the bottom of the screen that are in the group and choose “Ungroup Sheets” from the context menu. You will notice which sheets are grouped because their tabs at the bottom of the screen will all be white.
Once you ungrouped the sheets all your tools are back at your command.
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Thanks for this! I don’t even know how I ended up in group mode, or even that it existed. And this article was much more helpful than the Microsoft site :)
Thank you VERY much! This strange “feature” was about to ruin my day at work.
Greetings from Sweden.
Thank you for posting this info !
I had only converted an older worksheet to the newer format and ran into this issue (worked fine in the old version).
Glad I found this post.
a question WITH the solution – thank you :)
Thank you so much this has been driving me absolutely crazy.
Nice how this feature turns on automatically sometimes! You could really produce some undesired results!
Oh my Gosh, thanks so much for this post. This was driving me crazy.
I was searching for an hour before I found this.
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Thanks, very helpful
Thanks — very helpful!
Thanks for the answer!
My search query:
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Thanks! I was getting frustrated!!!
Glad I could help… ;)
Cheers, Cliff.
thanks, really help
Thanks – this was very helpful!
Oh my goodness, thank you! O.o
Great post, I was operating on a remote server and couldn’t even see the “Group” notification at the top. Couldn’t edit a chart, and my Data menu was all grayed out. Thanks for a quick and easy solution, wish I knew how I ended up in Group mode! (was editing an old .xls sheet)
Was doing some conditional formatting, and ran into this problem, thanks for posting it and saving me pain and suffering.
Genius – I thought Imy head was gonna explode! thanks for the help