Sounds like you might have a sticking Shift or Control Key on the Keyboard!

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"Mark Ryan" wrote in message
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I have seen it on other forums - no solution out there by the looks of
it - I
have installed SP1 and it doesn't seem to resolve this issue.

Office opens older files in 'Compatability mode' which is a joke. and even
after I convert the files to new 2007 format I still have the same
problem.

Hopefully as this is an MS forum someone from MS might actually think
about
reading some of this and offering either a solution or a 'we are very
sorry
and working to resolve this issue' -

or what is more likely is that they have our licence fees already so now
we
can just 'Go Hang' I resent paying huge sums for software prevents me from
selecting the data I want in the view I want. It's not asking too much
really
is it? -

I bought the upgrade version and still have 2003 installed on my machine
so
using that until MS sort it - or until MS pay me for my time to re-do all
our
templates.



" wrote:

This is definitely software related and widespread. We are
experiencing the same issue here on spreadsheets created in older
versions and then opened in Excel 2007. I was hoping MS Office Service
Pack 1 might address the issue. Has anyone else tried installing that?
It doesn't seem too promising but I figure its worth a try.

It was very difficult to find this discussion on the topic, much less
anything from Microsoft. Has anyone seen information on this
elsewhere?

Dave

On Feb 11, 10:25 am, Mark Ryan
wrote:
Thanks Don,

this problem appears on every machine I try it on with office 2007 -
regardless of hardware differences. this is definately a software
issue
related to selection of cells in page layout view with spreadsheets
created
using previous versions - as stated in my earlier submissions.

unless every mouse in the company has an objection to working with old
files
in page layout view mashing my mouse will probably only make things
worse :-)

"Don Guillett" wrote:
Beat up your scroll mouse by tapping on the wheel. Don't be nice.
Also,
sometimes the f8 key can give similar results.

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Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software

"Mark Ryan" <Mark wrote in message
...
We have the same problem here with some of our spreadsheets.

when you click on one cell excel highlights the cell you seleted
and 3 or
more below it in the same row! editing works as though you only
have one
cell
selected.

it gets worse though!......

if you zoom in a bit you select more cells with each click - zoom
out far
enough and it works fine - you only select one cell with each
click - i've
spent some time trawling the net to no avail.

It doesn't seem to affect new wokbooks only ones which have been
knocking
around for a while - but i don't feel like starting from scratch
with the
hundred or so template files we use here!

I am yet to find any acklowledgment of this issue from microsoft.

F8 and mouse drivers and office 2007 SP1 seem not to make any
difference
whatsoever.