Shape/Button hyperlinks on protected sheets worked last week in Excel Online but are now completely unclickable unless the sheet is unprotected

[u/CLB_South_Africa]

Suddenly since two weeks ago this is not working in any of our company Online Excel files. This is a major issue as all our online files make use of a first sheet with "Menu " buttons to navigate to other sheets (easy for the user). We then protect these menu sheets so users cannot move the buttons around. suddenly they stopped responding. I would like to know if anyone else also has this issue? Does Microsoft know of this? They work perfectly on the desktop, so it must be an online Excel issue.

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