EXCEL spreadsheet to INFORMIX through ODBC

Hi all, I set up an Excel spreadsheet to our production database through ODBC driver to get a report. Everything was working fine, and life was good until I found a little problem with the SQL tool in Excel. Normally, to get a report Excel will write a select statement according to criterias that the users input/ choose. It also allows anyone to Edit the select statement it writes in a little box. What I did was changing that select statement to delete/update statement. And it ran. What surprised me was that it actually ran the statement against the database and delete/update tables accordingly. This is not what we want. I have not been able to find any options to turn this thing off so that the user cannot edit the generated select SQL. I know all the permissions the user has are defined through the username that is defined in ODBC. We don't want to change all the user permissions on the database side. Is there any other way ? MS Excel 2000 IDS 9.30 UC1 Dynix/ptx V4.5.3 Thanks N.