I just received a new factory-imaged HDD with Windows Vista Home Premium and
installed my copy of MS Office Professional 2007.

Upon working with a one of my Excel files, I wanted to select a number of
non-adjacent cells to format identically. However, after I right-clicked and
applied preferred formatting, it was only applied to the last set of cells
selected.

Performing this action again -- while holding down CTRL and selecting the
data -- Excel would only recognize the most recent set of cells and not the
total number of cells. But, if I selected one set of cells, press the CTRL
key and select the next set and continue this process (let go of CTRL and
depress again prior to selecting the next set of cells) everything works
fine.

This is not "normal" functioning of Excel as my system at the office works
as expected -- to select non-adjacent cells you keep the CTRL depressed.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to correct this issue?

You might have the EXT set, take a look here 'Microsoft office help and
blog for Excel, Access, Powerpoint...etc, tips and tricks even
tutorials.'
(http://www.thecodecage.com/blog/2009...ard-shortcuts/) so
you can see which key combination you may have hit to affect it!

mikedhmsu;454359 Wrote:
I just received a new factory-imaged HDD with Windows Vista Home Premium
and
installed my copy of MS Office Professional 2007.

Upon working with a one of my Excel files, I wanted to select a number
of
non-adjacent cells to format identically. However, after I
right-clicked and
applied preferred formatting, it was only applied to the last set of
cells
selected.

Performing this action again -- while holding down CTRL and selecting
the
data -- Excel would only recognize the most recent set of cells and not
the
total number of cells. But, if I selected one set of cells, press the
CTRL
key and select the next set and continue this process (let go of CTRL
and
depress again prior to selecting the next set of cells) everything
works
fine.

This is not "normal" functioning of Excel as my system at the office
works
as expected -- to select non-adjacent cells you keep the CTRL
depressed.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to correct this issue?


--
Simon Lloyd

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Simon Lloyd
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Thank you! I know of the more common keyboard tips but it was SHIFT+F8 that
did the trick! Just not sure how to make it the default setting.

"Simon Lloyd" wrote:


You might have the EXT set, take a look here 'Microsoft office help and
blog for Excel, Access, Powerpoint...etc, tips and tricks even
tutorials.'
(http://www.thecodecage.com/blog/2009...ard-shortcuts/) so
you can see which key combination you may have hit to affect it!

mikedhmsu;454359 Wrote:
I just received a new factory-imaged HDD with Windows Vista Home Premium
and
installed my copy of MS Office Professional 2007.

Upon working with a one of my Excel files, I wanted to select a number
of
non-adjacent cells to format identically. However, after I
right-clicked and
applied preferred formatting, it was only applied to the last set of
cells
selected.

Performing this action again -- while holding down CTRL and selecting
the
data -- Excel would only recognize the most recent set of cells and not
the
total number of cells. But, if I selected one set of cells, press the
CTRL
key and select the next set and continue this process (let go of CTRL
and
depress again prior to selecting the next set of cells) everything
works
fine.

This is not "normal" functioning of Excel as my system at the office
works
as expected -- to select non-adjacent cells you keep the CTRL
depressed.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to correct this issue?


--
Simon Lloyd

Regards,
Simon Lloyd
'Microsoft Office Help' (http://www.thecodecage.com)
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It should be an on/off thing, if you have turned it off and saved the
workbook it should be that way in subsequent workbooks.

mikedhmsu;454703 Wrote:
Thank you! I know of the more common keyboard tips but it was SHIFT+F8
that
did the trick! Just not sure how to make it the default setting.

"Simon Lloyd" wrote:


You might have the EXT set, take a look here 'Microsoft office help
and
blog for Excel, Access, Powerpoint...etc, tips and tricks even
tutorials.'
('Microsoft office help and blog for Excel, Access, Powerpoint...etc,
tips and tricks even tutorials.'
(http://www.thecodecage.com/blog/2009...rd-shortcuts/)) so
you can see which key combination you may have hit to affect it!

mikedhmsu;454359 Wrote:
I just received a new factory-imaged HDD with Windows Vista Home
Premium
and
installed my copy of MS Office Professional 2007.

Upon working with a one of my Excel files, I wanted to select a
number
of
non-adjacent cells to format identically. However, after I
right-clicked and
applied preferred formatting, it was only applied to the last set
of
cells
selected.

Performing this action again -- while holding down CTRL and
selecting
the
data -- Excel would only recognize the most recent set of cells and
not
the
total number of cells. But, if I selected one set of cells, press
the
CTRL
key and select the next set and continue this process (let go of
CTRL
and
depress again prior to selecting the next set of cells) everything
works
fine.

This is not "normal" functioning of Excel as my system at the
office
works
as expected -- to select non-adjacent cells you keep the CTRL
depressed.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to correct this issue?


--
Simon Lloyd

Regards,
Simon Lloyd
'Microsoft Office Help' ('The Code Cage - Microsoft Office Help -
Microsoft Office Discussion' (http://www.thecodecage.com))

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On Aug 16, 4:37*pm, Simon Lloyd
wrote:
It should be an on/off thing, if you have turned it off and saved the
workbook it should be that way in subsequent workbooks.

mikedhmsu;454703 Wrote:



Thank you! I know of the more common keyboard tips but it was SHIFT+F8
that
did the trick! Just not sure how to make it the default setting.

"Simon Lloyd" wrote:

You might have the EXT set, take a look here 'Microsoft office help
and
blog for Excel, Access, Powerpoint...etc, tips and tricks even
tutorials.'
('Microsoft office help and blog for Excel, Access, Powerpoint...etc,
tips and tricks even tutorials.'
(http://www.thecodecage.com/blog/2009...rd-shortcuts/)) so
you can see which key combination you may have hit to affect it!

mikedhmsu;454359 Wrote:
I just received a new factory-imaged HDD with Windows Vista Home
Premium
and
installed my copy of MS Office Professional 2007.

Upon working with a one of my Excel files, I wanted to select a
number
of
non-adjacent cells to format identically. However, after I
right-clicked and
applied preferred formatting, it was only applied to the last set
of
cells
selected.

Performing this action again -- while holding down CTRL and
selecting
the
data -- Excel would only recognize the most recent set of cells and
not
the
total number of cells. But, if I selected one set of cells, press
the
CTRL
key and select the next set and continue this process (let go of
CTRL
and
depress again prior to selecting the next set of cells) everything
works
fine.

This is not "normal" functioning of Excel as my system at the
office
works
as expected -- to select non-adjacent cells you keep the CTRL
depressed.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to correct this issue?

--
Simon Lloyd

Regards,
Simon Lloyd
'Microsoft Office Help' ('The Code Cage - Microsoft Office Help -
Microsoft Office Discussion' (http://www.thecodecage.com))

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Hi again...

This fix is not permanent. I am still having the same issue and it's
very frustrating. As of now, I am thinking this issue is caused by a
patch of some sort. Does anyone else have this issue?

I even tried uninstalling and re-install Office 2007 with no luck.