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Why does Excel highlight all cells when making changes?
My problem is that when working in Excel 2003 I need to make a change on a
previously saved document. After opening the document up I select the cell that needs to be changed and for whatever reason as I move the mouse up to the tool bar to make the changes all cells that I move the mouse over automatically highlight and I cannot make any changes or do anything else with the document. What causes this and how can I fix the probem. |
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Why does Excel highlight all cells when making changes?
Never heard of that, as a workaround you can try to select the cell to
change, then hit F2, that sets you into edit mode automatically in that cell. -- -John Please rate when your question is answered to help us and others know what is helpful. "cja" wrote: My problem is that when working in Excel 2003 I need to make a change on a previously saved document. After opening the document up I select the cell that needs to be changed and for whatever reason as I move the mouse up to the tool bar to make the changes all cells that I move the mouse over automatically highlight and I cannot make any changes or do anything else with the document. What causes this and how can I fix the probem. |
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Why does Excel highlight all cells when making changes?
It looks like Excel considers that you move your mouse with the left button
down. Do you have any macro that performs some SendKeys or another similar effect. Does it do it for ALL spreadsheets? -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...excel/200707/1 |
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Why does Excel highlight all cells when making changes?
Hi,
What has happened is after clicking the cell, you have pressed the F8 function key. Press the Esc key and click any cell to free the selection. Challa Prabhu "cja" wrote: My problem is that when working in Excel 2003 I need to make a change on a previously saved document. After opening the document up I select the cell that needs to be changed and for whatever reason as I move the mouse up to the tool bar to make the changes all cells that I move the mouse over automatically highlight and I cannot make any changes or do anything else with the document. What causes this and how can I fix the probem. |
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