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troubleshoot Highlight
When I open a new spread sheet the highlight goes crazy all over the page and
I cant stop it. To get out of it I always need to use Ctrl.Alt.Del. Now I cannot use excel period, due to this malfunaction. Can anyone help me. Thanks AVM |
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AVM
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 Tue, 3 May 2005 14:00:58 -0700, AVM wrote: When I open a new spread sheet the highlight goes crazy all over the page and I cant stop it. To get out of it I always need to use Ctrl.Alt.Del. Now I cannot use excel period, due to this malfunaction. Can anyone help me. Thanks AVM |
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"AVM" wrote: When I open a new spread sheet the highlight goes crazy all over the page and I cant stop it. To get out of it I always need to use Ctrl.Alt.Del. Now I cannot use excel period, due to this malfunaction. Can anyone help me. Thanks AVM Hi Gord, Thanks very much for your very quick response to my problem.....sure do appreciate your help ..... thanks a lot AVM |
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