Hi Peter99,

About half of the time I open an Excel file, I try to position the cursor on
a particular cell and the cursor just runs away, cannot stop it, have to kill
the session with task manager. Any ideas? This is Excel 2003

See

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/ghosting.txt

for a host of possible causes.

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel MVP
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