Take a look at this:

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/unselect.htm

there's no builtin way to do it, other than starting over...

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Regards,

Juan Pablo González
Excel MVP

"ynissel" wrote in message
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When holding down ctrl to select a number of cells to format them or see
the
sum in the bottom of the screen - and you accidentally select one you dont
want - is there a way to unselect that one without starting over ?

Thanks,
Yosef