select a cell off screen

set the enableselection property to xlNoSelection and protect the sheet

select something besides a cell.

the real answer is there is no setting that does this.

After that, you can use something like one of the above workarounds. Guess
it depends on what you are trying to do.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy



"Nigel" wrote in message
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Hi All
This appears so simple but...... how do you turn off the Excel cell
cursor
or at the very least hide it?

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Cheers
Nigel