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Enter doesnt return to the cell below the starting point anymore
This just started happening yesterday...
My documents are protected as "Select unlocked cells", which is how Ive always protected my documents. By the way, Im using Excel 2003. Anyway, when I hit enter after tabbing through cells it doesnt return to the cell below the staring point anymore. I tried this again in old workbooks and blank workbooks but its the same problem. The only way it will work when protected is if I have "select locked cells" checked (which I dont like but can live with). I already checked in ToolsOptionsEdit "Move selection after Enter" is checked, Direction: my options a Down, Right, Up, or Left; "Down" is selected. I also looked at ToolsOptionsTransition to make sure "Transition navigation keys" is unchecked. What else could be the problem? Thank you, Jeff |
Enter doesn't return to the cell below the starting point anymore
Jeff,
I had a similar problem recently. Worksheet protected with only select unlocked cells allowed. XL 2003. In my case, using the arrow keys made it go nuts, jumping around and sometimes locking up Excel. So did the Enter key. If I allowed selection of locked cells, no failure. I was able to confirm this behavior on an XL2000 machine, and Jim Cone confirmed it on XL 2002 and 2003. Nothing in the knowledge base about it, but if there was, it'd probably be the usual "don't do that" answer. -- Regards from Virginia Beach, Earl Kiosterud www.smokeylake.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Jeff" wrote in message ... This just started happening yesterday... My documents are protected as "Select unlocked cells", which is how I've always protected my documents. By the way, I'm using Excel 2003. Anyway, when I hit enter after tabbing through cells it doesn't return to the cell below the staring point anymore. I tried this again in old workbooks and blank workbooks but it's the same problem. The only way it will work when protected is if I have "select locked cells" checked (which I don't like but can live with). I already checked in ToolsOptionsEdit "Move selection after Enter" is checked, Direction: my options a Down, Right, Up, or Left; "Down" is selected. I also looked at ToolsOptionsTransition to make sure "Transition navigation keys" is unchecked. What else could be the problem? Thank you, Jeff |
Enter doesn't return to the cell below the starting point anym
Thanks Earl, that's what I was afraid of. Oh well, maybe I will have to live
with it then. Or maybe it will just go away. Thanks again, Jeff "Earl Kiosterud" wrote: Jeff, I had a similar problem recently. Worksheet protected with only select unlocked cells allowed. XL 2003. In my case, using the arrow keys made it go nuts, jumping around and sometimes locking up Excel. So did the Enter key. If I allowed selection of locked cells, no failure. I was able to confirm this behavior on an XL2000 machine, and Jim Cone confirmed it on XL 2002 and 2003. Nothing in the knowledge base about it, but if there was, it'd probably be the usual "don't do that" answer. -- Regards from Virginia Beach, Earl Kiosterud www.smokeylake.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Jeff" wrote in message ... This just started happening yesterday... My documents are protected as "Select unlocked cells", which is how I've always protected my documents. By the way, I'm using Excel 2003. Anyway, when I hit enter after tabbing through cells it doesn't return to the cell below the staring point anymore. I tried this again in old workbooks and blank workbooks but it's the same problem. The only way it will work when protected is if I have "select locked cells" checked (which I don't like but can live with). I already checked in ToolsOptionsEdit "Move selection after Enter" is checked, Direction: my options a Down, Right, Up, or Left; "Down" is selected. I also looked at ToolsOptionsTransition to make sure "Transition navigation keys" is unchecked. What else could be the problem? Thank you, Jeff |
Enter doesn't return to the cell below the starting point anym
Jeff,
I had to solve it by also allowing selection of locked cells. Less useful for the user, but it works. I lost a lot of time on a simple project a few weeks ago struggling with this. And it was urgent. I was working on a Sunday. :) -- Regards from Virginia Beach, Earl Kiosterud www.smokeylake.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Jeff" wrote in message ... Thanks Earl, that's what I was afraid of. Oh well, maybe I will have to live with it then. Or maybe it will just go away. Thanks again, Jeff "Earl Kiosterud" wrote: Jeff, I had a similar problem recently. Worksheet protected with only select unlocked cells allowed. XL 2003. In my case, using the arrow keys made it go nuts, jumping around and sometimes locking up Excel. So did the Enter key. If I allowed selection of locked cells, no failure. I was able to confirm this behavior on an XL2000 machine, and Jim Cone confirmed it on XL 2002 and 2003. Nothing in the knowledge base about it, but if there was, it'd probably be the usual "don't do that" answer. -- Regards from Virginia Beach, Earl Kiosterud www.smokeylake.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Jeff" wrote in message ... This just started happening yesterday... My documents are protected as "Select unlocked cells", which is how I've always protected my documents. By the way, I'm using Excel 2003. Anyway, when I hit enter after tabbing through cells it doesn't return to the cell below the staring point anymore. I tried this again in old workbooks and blank workbooks but it's the same problem. The only way it will work when protected is if I have "select locked cells" checked (which I don't like but can live with). I already checked in ToolsOptionsEdit "Move selection after Enter" is checked, Direction: my options a Down, Right, Up, or Left; "Down" is selected. I also looked at ToolsOptionsTransition to make sure "Transition navigation keys" is unchecked. What else could be the problem? Thank you, Jeff |
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