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Mike20878
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Jul 26, 2019

Can't delete worksheet

I'm right-clicking on a sheet, clicking delete and nothing happens.  The sheet is not protected.  I'm not sure what's happening.   I'm running Excel for Office 365 MSO v1902 for Windows.   Thanks...
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DougFresh
Copper Contributor
Jul 15, 2021

Mike20878 I was researching this issue for myself. Running excel as admin then opening the book solved the issue for me. There is also a setting to always run the program as admin.

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    Chimestia
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 13, 2024
    If anyone is having this issue in 2024, running Excel as an admin worked for me as well. 🙂
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    Anamika1947
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 08, 2021

    DougFresh Please can you tell me how I can run Excel as admin. I have the same issue of not being able to delete sheets in Excel.

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      SergeiBaklan
      Diamond Contributor
      Nov 08, 2021

      Anamika1947 

      If you on Windows and have administrative user rights

      Win -> Excel -> Run as administrator

       

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        kirkbsmith
        Copper Contributor
        Nov 20, 2021
        Hi. This didn't work for me either; at least in my case, having administrative rights makes no difference. This behavior only started after a recent Office 365 update. As there has been no other change in either my Windows 10 system setup or Office 365 or Excel usage patterns, I think this problem likely relates to a bug introduced via the recent update.

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