Excel: How to disable auto complete for certain cells only
In Excel, the auto complete feature is turned on by default. You can choose to turn off it in the Excel Options window. But sometimes, you may want to disable this auto complete for a certain range only, how can you solve this job?
Note: the methods provided in this tutorial are tested in Excel 2021, there may be some different in different Excel verisions.
Disable auto complete for a certain range
In Excel, there is no built-in feature that can achieve this goal, but here introduces a VBA code to solve it.
1. Activate the sheet that contains the range you want to disable auto complete, right-click at the sheet name in the status bar, and choose View Code from the popping context menu.
2. In the popping Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, copy and paste the below code to the blank script window.
VBA: Disable auto complete for certain cells
Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
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Dim xRgAddress As String
xRgAddress = "A:A" 'the range that you want to disable auto complete
If Intersect(Target, Range(xRgAddress)) Is Nothing Then
Application.EnableAutoComplete = True
Else
Application.EnableAutoComplete = False
End If
End Sub 
Notice that in the above code, I set to disable auto complete in column A, please change the code xRgAddress = "A:A" to other range as you need, such as xRgAddress = "A1:B5".
Save the code and go back to the sheet, now only the range you set will be stopped auto complete.
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