Do you see 'Extend Selection' on the status bar at the bottom of Excel window?

If yes, then press F8 once and see whether the problem goes away...

"Ritamarie01" wrote:

When I click on one cell in Excel, the 4 or 5 below that cell often get
highlighted as well and I have to type in one of them to remove the
highlight. This is rather annoying as if I hit delete (to delete the info in
the first cell) it will delete all of the info. I have only seen this with
the new version of Excel 2007.