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mouse selects area
My mouse is selecting areas instead of single cells. Can someone tell me
what the purpose of this is and what its called so I can look it up in help and figure out how to turn the option on and off? Thanks a million, Todd L. |
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In my experience, that's usually a stuck key on the keyboard. Tap each of
the shift, alt, ctrl, caps lock and windows keys several times, harder than usual, but not too hard. See if that clears up the problem. Tim C "Todd" wrote in message ... My mouse is selecting areas instead of single cells. Can someone tell me what the purpose of this is and what its called so I can look it up in help and figure out how to turn the option on and off? Thanks a million, Todd L. |
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Todd, try pressing the F8 key
-- Paul B Always backup your data before trying something new Please post any response to the newsgroups so others can benefit from it Feedback on answers is always appreciated! Using Excel 2002 & 2003 "Todd" wrote in message ... My mouse is selecting areas instead of single cells. Can someone tell me what the purpose of this is and what its called so I can look it up in help and figure out how to turn the option on and off? Thanks a million, Todd L. |
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Todd
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. 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 Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:41:06 -0800, "Todd" wrote: My mouse is selecting areas instead of single cells. Can someone tell me what the purpose of this is and what its called so I can look it up in help and figure out how to turn the option on and off? Thanks a million, Todd L. |
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