Excel 2000 suddenly stopped letting me enter data. Help?
 

Trying to edit a work sheet, or create a new one, as soon as I click on a
cell, it is shaded, and then shades every cell wherever I move the mouse. As
soon as I click on a cell, I can no longer click on file, edit, etc., and
cannot even close the worksheet or excel. I have to use cntrl,alt,del to
close the program. This happened about 2 weeks ago. I have reinstalled
office; i have downloaded all available updates; nothing changes. The
worksheets I created work fine on a different computer - it just seems to be
this computer that has the problem, and everthing on it was fine until 2
weeks ago. I haven't made any changes, other than updating virus protection,
firewall, etc. Would welcome any help or insight to the problem. Thanks

Excel 2000 suddenly stopped letting me enter data. Help?
 

Hi Try this.

Go to start-run.Type excel /safe.Click OK.This opens excel in safe mode
without
any startup add-inns or macros.Now open the workbook in safe mode and see if
the menu options work.If they work it means there might be a block of code or
an add-in at startup causing the problem.

Rgds,
Ambrish.

"usatutoring" wrote:

Trying to edit a work sheet, or create a new one, as soon as I click on a
cell, it is shaded, and then shades every cell wherever I move the mouse. As
soon as I click on a cell, I can no longer click on file, edit, etc., and
cannot even close the worksheet or excel. I have to use cntrl,alt,del to
close the program. This happened about 2 weeks ago. I have reinstalled
office; i have downloaded all available updates; nothing changes. The
worksheets I created work fine on a different computer - it just seems to be
this computer that has the problem, and everthing on it was fine until 2
weeks ago. I haven't made any changes, other than updating virus protection,
firewall, etc. Would welcome any help or insight to the problem. Thanks