excel skips to another workbook for no apparent reason

Anonymous
2015-01-24T17:08:03+00:00

Quite often when I try to make an entry into a cell excel appears to freeze.  If I hit the enter button it skips to a different workbook.  There are no links between the two workbooks.  This has been happening for some time and is very annoying.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-03-17T08:28:44+00:00

    I am having another problem with Excel and I believe this is also due to changing the way it operates.

    For years now I have been producing spreadsheets with dynamic graphs. I.e change a parameter and the graph changes too. Only ... now it doesn't!

    I have a workbook saved with the new calculated coordinates and excel is still displaying the previous graph; for which the data no longer exists!.

    I get the distinct impression that excel is not as powerful as it used to be.

    But keeping to topic...

    I recently (two days ago) downloaded the latest office update, which included updates for excel. I was hoping against all hope that they have realized the error of their ways. But alas it was not to be.

    The jumping to other sheets is still happening about 20 times per day.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-03-15T13:12:42+00:00

    We also have a user experiencing the same issue.  Windows 7, Office 365 (2016).  Hopefully there will be an update soon or at the very least a workaround.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-03-07T03:37:16+00:00

    I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. 

    They bring many changes to new versions just for the sake of it and they don't do their homework. If someone had bothered to test it properly they would have found it.

    It is always the end user who has to put up with their incompetence.

    Splitting excel into separate workbooks is the cause of this problem and I wouldn't be surprised if they knew this would be the price we would have to pay for it.

    For those who don't understand what I mean... When you have multiple workbooks open and minimize; you will notice that you have to minimize every workbook. On previous versions all workbooks minimized collectively.

    I am very angry about having to put up with this numerous times daily.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-03-15T17:00:42+00:00

    Create a new windows user account using the link and check if excel works this would let us know if the problem is with the user account.

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-user-account#create-user-account=windows-8

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-03-01T15:32:05+00:00

    What do you mean by I can’t run Excel in safe mode for a while?

    Excel would always work faster in application safe mode because it disables all add-in.

    You can disable the add-in and check how it works.

    You can change the default printer and check it fixes.

    Here is the link to change the printer.

    http://windows.microsoft.com/is-IS/windows7/Change-your-default-printer

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