Excel 2007, Undesired selection of multiple cells

Anonymous
2010-07-20T19:01:58+00:00

I am using excel 2007, on occasion when i try to select any one cell it will highlight and select multiple cells. Once this occurs it happens with every cell I click on.

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Anonymous
2010-07-29T19:22:04+00:00

I have heard, but cannot confirm, that some people with this problem have found that altering the zoom level (slider in lower right corner of Excel window) gets the multiple seelction to go away

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-03-25T12:17:42+00:00

    Maybe Office 15 will fix it, or (less likely) the next SP

    Remember that that only some users have the problem so it must be a hardware problem

    best wishes

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-03-25T10:30:08+00:00

    @DanBerdovich, Sven RK

    I have been using Excel 2010 for about 18 months since the Technical Preview and have not had this problem, so I would suggest it is not a case of "why can't Microsoft fix this " or "this problem has not been resolved" but rather:

     "no-one seems to be able to pin down a common cause as to why a handful of users have this problem and many thousands do not".

    I have not had any reports of this from any of my consulting clients or training delegates, so I really don't think we can claim this is a universal bug.

    I have recently had a strange problem with my laptop recently where it would work as if a Shift key was stuck down after waking from sleep mode. This would cause all sorts of problems such as selecting multiple cells (as wall as all sorts of other undesirable behaviour). It is these sorts of external factors which may be part of the problem here, or of course it could be the bahaviour of some add-in or other issue.

    Are you sure that you do not have "extend selection" or "add to selection" mode turned on (it would sho this in the status bar)? Have you tried turning extend mode on and off again? (F8, F8 again)

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-03-25T07:07:20+00:00

    I see that this problem has not been resolved yet as it is 2011 and I use Office 2010 and still have same problem

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-03-13T23:38:15+00:00

    I am grateful to find this thread.  I've had this extremely annoying problem with Excel off/on for months, and could not locate any information.

    I find the zoom works most of the time. I do so much formula and sheet editing, I feel like I can't do my job with this tool and have very very seriously considered dropping Microsoft Office from all of our 7 computers.

    IS THERE ANY REASON WHY MICROSOFT CAN NOT FIX THIS ???

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