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
    2018-04-20T13:01:26+00:00

    i recently experienced this issue when i installed Office Pro Plus 2016 using an offline installer on a Surface Pro 4 2017 model...

    the zoom trick worked a treat for a time but it never permanently fixed the issue

    I think i have found a permanent fix though... i uninstalled the 2016 office which was 32bit, and using the online installer, i installed the 64bit version... so far, this bug has not come back...

    (i also noticed that the computer had multiple versions of office installed, so i uninstalled every last one and gave the computer 2 reboots before installing the 64bit version...

    may be worth a try to see if this solution can be replicated...

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-03-16T09:24:21+00:00

    Many thanks for your reply!

    If it happens again ill give that a try!

    Best regards

    Paul

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-03-16T04:29:55+00:00

    I'm using Excel 2010. Just started having this problem, and read some of these posts. Here's what fixed it for me.

    To the left of the zoom slider there are three different page view buttons:

    I was set to page layout.  Changing the zoom helped sometimes, sometimes it did not.

    I clicked the Normal view, Page Break view, then back to Page Layout.

    No more issue!

    Hope this helps someone.

    Thanks.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-02-08T21:26:06+00:00

    I have Office 2016 and I still have this problem.

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