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I had a user yesterday that had an excel file open and when he clicked a cell
the computer just started typing al by itself. It was pretty strange and this never happened before. He clossed it then opened a blank file and the same thing happened. Anyone ever heard of this happening? I thought it might have something to do with speech recognition but i turned it off and it still happened. I ran a virus check and the machine came up clean. Any thought?? thanks. PTR |
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Same characters or multiple characters? -- Doug Benjamin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Doug Benjamin's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=33407 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=532292 |
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It just started typing words. Some sentences made sense and some didn't. It
would have kept typing if i let it. "Doug Benjamin" wrote: Same characters or multiple characters? -- Doug Benjamin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Doug Benjamin's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=33407 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=532292 |
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I had a problem once where my mouse was sticking, and putting out characters
amd doing crazy stuff. If it's putting out actual words, maybe it's ccopying data?. What version of Excel do you have? It souunds to me like a macro with a bug, or a joke or maliciousness. Some macros automatically run when certain events happen, like opening a document, or entering data in a cell. Do you know how to look at macros, and where automatic macros are located? If not, let us know your Excel version. It could be a virus? Are your virus fix programs up-to-date? Good luck. If you find out, please let us know. "Perry" wrote: I had a user yesterday that had an excel file open and when he clicked a cell the computer just started typing al by itself. It was pretty strange and this never happened before. He clossed it then opened a blank file and the same thing happened. Anyone ever heard of this happening? I thought it might have something to do with speech recognition but i turned it off and it still happened. I ran a virus check and the machine came up clean. Any thought?? thanks. PTR |
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Hello Patricia,
I don't know how to look at macros but I did run a virus scan on the machine and cam eup with zero viruses. We are running Excel 2003 SP2. any help is apreciated. thanks. PTR "Patricia Shannon" wrote: I had a problem once where my mouse was sticking, and putting out characters amd doing crazy stuff. If it's putting out actual words, maybe it's ccopying data?. What version of Excel do you have? It souunds to me like a macro with a bug, or a joke or maliciousness. Some macros automatically run when certain events happen, like opening a document, or entering data in a cell. Do you know how to look at macros, and where automatic macros are located? If not, let us know your Excel version. It could be a virus? Are your virus fix programs up-to-date? Good luck. If you find out, please let us know. "Perry" wrote: I had a user yesterday that had an excel file open and when he clicked a cell the computer just started typing al by itself. It was pretty strange and this never happened before. He clossed it then opened a blank file and the same thing happened. Anyone ever heard of this happening? I thought it might have something to do with speech recognition but i turned it off and it still happened. I ran a virus check and the machine came up clean. Any thought?? thanks. PTR |
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Go to the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) by clicking Tools/Macros/Visual Basic
On the left side of the VBE screen, there should be a bot with the VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) projects. If a project (which is a workbook) has a box with a plus sign (+), click on the plus sign to expand the selection. Double click on each of the sheets, including "This Workbook", and see if you find any code. "Perry" wrote: Hello Patricia, I don't know how to look at macros but I did run a virus scan on the machine and cam eup with zero viruses. We are running Excel 2003 SP2. any help is apreciated. thanks. PTR "Patricia Shannon" wrote: I had a problem once where my mouse was sticking, and putting out characters amd doing crazy stuff. If it's putting out actual words, maybe it's ccopying data?. What version of Excel do you have? It souunds to me like a macro with a bug, or a joke or maliciousness. Some macros automatically run when certain events happen, like opening a document, or entering data in a cell. Do you know how to look at macros, and where automatic macros are located? If not, let us know your Excel version. It could be a virus? Are your virus fix programs up-to-date? Good luck. If you find out, please let us know. "Perry" wrote: I had a user yesterday that had an excel file open and when he clicked a cell the computer just started typing al by itself. It was pretty strange and this never happened before. He clossed it then opened a blank file and the same thing happened. Anyone ever heard of this happening? I thought it might have something to do with speech recognition but i turned it off and it still happened. I ran a virus check and the machine came up clean. Any thought?? thanks. PTR |
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In the previous msg, near the beginning, when I had "there should be a bot"
it should be "there should be a box" "Patricia Shannon" wrote: Go to the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) by clicking Tools/Macros/Visual Basic On the left side of the VBE screen, there should be a bot with the VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) projects. If a project (which is a workbook) has a box with a plus sign (+), click on the plus sign to expand the selection. Double click on each of the sheets, including "This Workbook", and see if you find any code. "Perry" wrote: Hello Patricia, I don't know how to look at macros but I did run a virus scan on the machine and cam eup with zero viruses. We are running Excel 2003 SP2. any help is apreciated. thanks. PTR "Patricia Shannon" wrote: I had a problem once where my mouse was sticking, and putting out characters amd doing crazy stuff. If it's putting out actual words, maybe it's ccopying data?. What version of Excel do you have? It souunds to me like a macro with a bug, or a joke or maliciousness. Some macros automatically run when certain events happen, like opening a document, or entering data in a cell. Do you know how to look at macros, and where automatic macros are located? If not, let us know your Excel version. It could be a virus? Are your virus fix programs up-to-date? Good luck. If you find out, please let us know. "Perry" wrote: I had a user yesterday that had an excel file open and when he clicked a cell the computer just started typing al by itself. It was pretty strange and this never happened before. He clossed it then opened a blank file and the same thing happened. Anyone ever heard of this happening? I thought it might have something to do with speech recognition but i turned it off and it still happened. I ran a virus check and the machine came up clean. Any thought?? thanks. PTR |
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