ben wrote:
Hello. I occasionally get into a situation where whenever I move the
mouse it highlights cells and I can't do anything else. Pressing escape
or a mouse button (or pressing any other key it seems) does not stop
this effect and I am forced to do a ctrl-alt-del and end the Excel task
so I can load Excel again to get it back to normal (losing all changes
etc). Last time it happened I was trying to do alt-t,p to protect the
sheet when it began.

Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.

Slight correction to the above. It is happening every time I load Excel as
soon as I push the mouse button on a cell - everything freezes except for
allowing me to drag the mouse pointer to highlight adjecent cells. I can
flip to other applications but can't work in Excel. Please help!!!