We are seeing this as well and have found that we can NOT repro it in Normal
view, but it can be reproduced regularly while in Page Layout view.

We have done this with different spreadsheets, after reboots and verifying
key sticking on keyboard or mouse are not the cause.

Any word on a resolution? For now we're going to be telling users to switch
to Normal View when editing documents where this is occurring!

" wrote:

On Feb 26, 12:00 pm, wrote:
This has nothing to do with the mouse hardware. Closing an re-opening
excel sometimes fixes it. If you click a cell and it selects several,
it does it on MouseDown, not on MouseUp. In fact, if you notice it has
selected several cells before you release the mouse button, and you
drag up a bit (if it has selected errant cells below) it will de-
select the others. It seems to me that it has something to do with the
hit-testing internal to excel, and may be from an interaction with the
mouse drivers. But, hey, this is something Microsoft should
acknowledge and deal with! I'm using Logitech mouse and software
4.24.99. Please, others with the same problem, what mouse software and
version are you using?

Bob Graham

On Feb 14, 5:04 am, "Don Guillett" wrote:



Sometimes these critters just have to be taught who is the boss

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Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software
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On Feb 13, 7:17 pm, "Saruman" wrote:

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

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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 youclickon 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 eachclick-
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.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

This definately has to do with the scroll wheel. I beat the hell out
of it and it fixed it :)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

It doesn't appear to be caused by mouse hardware. I can recreate the
issue on a laptop without a mouse. I have updated with SP1 along with
the latest updates and it hasn't gone away. The only thing I know from
messing around with this is that it appears in Page Layout view. If
you change it to the Normal Layout view then it goes away. I guess I
will have to contact Microsoft on this one.

Bill