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Can't get out of selection? Assistance would be most appreciated...
Perhaps I have done something inadvertently.
I am in an Excel workbook and I appear to be in the middle of selecting a block of cells. Everytime I move the cursor, the cell selection area changes. I can't Esc out, or use the Enter key. Mousing over the menu, the menu does not respond. Rather silly really, but I desperately need to use this workbook and nothing seems to function. Even when the cursor is moving over the menu items, the cells selected in the workbook area still seems to be changing. I can't use the menu - the arrow keys don't work. Does anyone know how to "get out" of whatever selection process is operating. (And can you tell me what I might have done to get into this so I don't do it again?) Thanks, Stephanie. |
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This is a known (but unacknowledged by MS) bug. Try clicking the
mouse wheel a few times (if your mouse has a wheel), or if you have a USB mouse, unplugging and replugging the mouse. -- Cordially, Chip Pearson Microsoft MVP - Excel Pearson Software Consulting, LLC www.cpearson.com wrote in message oups.com... Perhaps I have done something inadvertently. I am in an Excel workbook and I appear to be in the middle of selecting a block of cells. Everytime I move the cursor, the cell selection area changes. I can't Esc out, or use the Enter key. Mousing over the menu, the menu does not respond. Rather silly really, but I desperately need to use this workbook and nothing seems to function. Even when the cursor is moving over the menu items, the cells selected in the workbook area still seems to be changing. I can't use the menu - the arrow keys don't work. Does anyone know how to "get out" of whatever selection process is operating. (And can you tell me what I might have done to get into this so I don't do it again?) Thanks, Stephanie. |
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Try hitting F8 (to toggle out of this mode), then just click on a cell.
(You might have hit F8 accidentally earlier) -- Rgds Max xl 97 --- GMT+8, 1° 22' N 103° 45' E xdemechanik <atyahoo<dotcom ---- wrote in message oups.com... Perhaps I have done something inadvertently. I am in an Excel workbook and I appear to be in the middle of selecting a block of cells. Everytime I move the cursor, the cell selection area changes. I can't Esc out, or use the Enter key. Mousing over the menu, the menu does not respond. Rather silly really, but I desperately need to use this workbook and nothing seems to function. Even when the cursor is moving over the menu items, the cells selected in the workbook area still seems to be changing. I can't use the menu - the arrow keys don't work. Does anyone know how to "get out" of whatever selection process is operating. (And can you tell me what I might have done to get into this so I don't do it again?) Thanks, Stephanie. |
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Interesting. I tried both of the suggestions posted in reply to my
message and neither worked. I was displaying the worksheet on my laptop using the internal mouse. I closed the worksheet and reopened it - still the same problem. I closed the worksheet again and then opened it on my desktop, however, and the problem went away... Thanks to both of you. Looks like a bug. Steph. Max wrote: Try hitting F8 (to toggle out of this mode), then just click on a cell. (You might have hit F8 accidentally earlier) -- Rgds Max xl 97 --- GMT+8, 1=B0 22' N 103=B0 45' E xdemechanik <atyahoo<dotcom ---- wrote in message oups.com... Perhaps I have done something inadvertently. I am in an Excel workbook and I appear to be in the middle of selecting a block of cells. Everytime I move the cursor, the cell selection area changes. I can't Esc out, or use the Enter key. Mousing over the menu, the menu does not respond. Rather silly really, but I desperately need to use this workbook and nothing seems to function. Even when the cursor is moving over the menu items, the cells selected in the workbook area still seems to be changing. I can't use the menu - the arrow keys don't work. Does anyone know how to "get out" of whatever selection process is operating. (And can you tell me what I might have done to get into this so I don't do it again?) Thanks, Stephanie. |
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Glad to hear the issue got resolved, notwithstanding ..
Think there's some possibilities listed at: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/ghosting.txt -- Rgds Max xl 97 --- GMT+8, 1° 22' N 103° 45' E xdemechanik <atyahoo<dotcom ---- "Schipper" wrote in message oups.com... Interesting. I tried both of the suggestions posted in reply to my message and neither worked. I was displaying the worksheet on my laptop using the internal mouse. I closed the worksheet and reopened it - still the same problem. I closed the worksheet again and then opened it on my desktop, however, and the problem went away... Thanks to both of you. Looks like a bug. Steph. |
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