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Content Not Permitted, two-four-seven is not allowed in the community. Remove it & try again.
What does this mean? "Content Not Permitted, two-four-seven is not allowed in the community. Remove it and try again."
My post had text and snipping-tool images from my Excel spreadsheet - that's all. What is "two-four-seven"?
How can I display images from my spreadsheet without triggering this error?
And as I tried to publish this question, I got the same warning! So I have spelled out the numerals.
Hi Tracy, that message comes from the community's spam filter, not from Excel. "two-four-seven" is the filter naming the blocked term: those three digits written together, the round-the-clock number that fake support-line spam uses all the time. The forum turns away any post that contains it, which is why your question tripped it too until you spelled the numbers out. I'm spelling them out here for the same reason.
I can't see the filter's list, but it checks the text of a post, not the pixels in a picture. In a post with screenshots the digits can hide in a value or cell address you typed, in table text pasted from the sheet, or in an image's file name, which the editor can keep as the image description. Snipping Tool names saved files with the date and time down to the second, so a file name alone can contain those digits.
What should get the post through: rename the screenshots to something plain like sheet1.png before inserting them, or paste each one straight from the clipboard. Then search your draft with Ctrl+F for the three digits and reword any number that contains them, for example by writing a row number in words.
(Drafted with AI assistance and checked before posting.)
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Thank you - I simplified my spreadsheet, left out all the offending numerals, and it did publish this time. It had to be something in the background because nowhere visible did those numerals appear in that order. Thanks!
Seems not to be about image unsafe but is triggered by certain text patterns (like “247” or “two‑four‑seven”) that the platform’s automated validation rules block.
Hi Tracy, that message comes from the community's spam filter, not from Excel. "two-four-seven" is the filter naming the blocked term: those three digits written together, the round-the-clock number that fake support-line spam uses all the time. The forum turns away any post that contains it, which is why your question tripped it too until you spelled the numbers out. I'm spelling them out here for the same reason.
I can't see the filter's list, but it checks the text of a post, not the pixels in a picture. In a post with screenshots the digits can hide in a value or cell address you typed, in table text pasted from the sheet, or in an image's file name, which the editor can keep as the image description. Snipping Tool names saved files with the date and time down to the second, so a file name alone can contain those digits.
What should get the post through: rename the screenshots to something plain like sheet1.png before inserting them, or paste each one straight from the clipboard. Then search your draft with Ctrl+F for the three digits and reword any number that contains them, for example by writing a row number in words.
(Drafted with AI assistance and checked before posting.)
