AVM

A common cause of this is that you are in "Extended" or "Add" mode.

If you see "EXT" or "ADD" down on the status bar try hitting F8 key a couple
of times.

F8 will will toggle you in and out of Extended mode. SHIFT + F8 will put you
in "ADD" mode.

With the "ADD" mode you need to re-click the mouse. This is used to select
non-contiguous cells and ranges without using the CTRL key.

With the "EXT" mode you just click once and drag. All cells will be selected.

If you are using a wheel-mouse tap the wheel a couple times.

Also see David McRitchie's "Ghosting" at

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


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Tue, 3 May 2005 14:00:58 -0700, AVM wrote:

When I open a new spread sheet the highlight goes crazy all over the page and
I cant stop it. To get out of it I always need to use Ctrl.Alt.Del.
Now I cannot use excel period, due to this malfunaction. Can anyone help me.
Thanks

AVM