I have the same question. I have experienced the same problem with Excel
2003 Professional on my current work computer. Everyone in my office
experiences this behavior. I have never encountered this problem before, at
home or my previous job. I use Excel 2003 Small Busines at home and 2003
Professional at my previous job.

I am aware of the issues with using merged cells, but they are minor for the
work I do. I use merged cells frequently for a variety of reasons. Not
being able to select and manipulate the entire row or column is fustrating.

I too would like to know how to make it stop.

"R Ormerod" wrote:

I am using Excel 2003 and have never seen this before until very recently -
the only cause I can think of is a few add-ins which may have affected things.

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R Ormerod


"Dave Peterson" wrote:

I don't think so.

If I remember correctly, this was the behavior in xl97. Each version of excel
seems to behave a bit differently.

For instance, xl2003 doesn't behave this way.

R Ormerod wrote:

When I am selecting columns (e.g. to insert a single new column) above a
merged cell Excel is then selecting all the columns incorporated by the
merged cell.

I don't remember this ever happening before - is there an option somewhere
that I can change?

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R Ormerod

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Dave Peterson