While editing text, wouldn't you use the arrow keys?

"dale" wrote:

That's true, but while editing text in a cell the space bar should perform
normally
Thanks

"exceluserforeman" wrote:

When you press the spacebar, it selects the current cell for editing.
Iif you want to move from cell to cell then press the Tab Key.

"dale" wrote:

for some reason the space bar doen't function when in excel, it works
properly in all the other office apps.

the user says she is using office 2000 on windows 98

thanks