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Every cell is highlighted
This is a new one for me. Afer opening up Excel '98 and go to a cell, every
cell is highlighted when I move the mouse. I can not put any information in any cell. The only way to quit Excel is control, alt, delete and then it gives me "can not quit excel". It does though after a while. Wherever I move the mouse, the cells are highlighted. What gives? Thanks |
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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 Wed, 2 Mar 2005 16:55:04 -0800, "5hulses" wrote: This is a new one for me. Afer opening up Excel '98 and go to a cell, every cell is highlighted when I move the mouse. I can not put any information in any cell. The only way to quit Excel is control, alt, delete and then it gives me "can not quit excel". It does though after a while. Wherever I move the mouse, the cells are highlighted. What gives? Thanks |
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what does the f8 key do?
"Don Guillett" wrote: f8 key -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "5hulses" wrote in message ... This is a new one for me. Afer opening up Excel '98 and go to a cell, every cell is highlighted when I move the mouse. I can not put any information in any cell. The only way to quit Excel is control, alt, delete and then it gives me "can not quit excel". It does though after a while. Wherever I move the mouse, the cells are highlighted. What gives? Thanks |
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I have this same problem. F8 does nothing for me. There is no EXT or ADD at
the bottom of the spreadsheet. It only happens on my laptop and not on my desktop. It's killin' me. Everytime it happens, I lose any data I've keyed and not saved. "5hulses" wrote: This is a new one for me. Afer opening up Excel '98 and go to a cell, every cell is highlighted when I move the mouse. I can not put any information in any cell. The only way to quit Excel is control, alt, delete and then it gives me "can not quit excel". It does though after a while. Wherever I move the mouse, the cells are highlighted. What gives? Thanks |
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