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Everytime i select a cell in excel, it automatically selects 5 additional
adjacent cells to. How do I stop this?
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Maybe press F8 and turn off extend select?

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Everytime i select a cell in excel, it automatically selects 5 additional
adjacent cells to. How do I stop this?


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Default How do I stop automatic selection of cells in Excel?

Try setting the Zoom level a little lower.

The multiple cell selection is a bug in Excel 2007.

The zoom-changing appears to fix it.

I don't have 2007 but a few postings have made the suggestion and it seems
to work.

Here is one such posting.

http://tinyurl.com/3wofsf


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Everytime i select a cell in excel, it automatically selects 5 additional
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