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
    2019-03-12T16:06:06+00:00

    In my case, it happens quite often, maybe every half hour on average, but new input data just gets lost rather than going into the wrong workbook. So as soon as I notice it's not responding, I hit enter and let it flip to some other open workbook, then reselect the one I'm working on and re-input the new data. Once I even saw it flip to another workbook when I wasn't even touching the keyboard!

    Ken.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-03-12T14:55:32+00:00

    Just another drop in the bucket here.

    Excel has been doing this to me somewhat rarely for the last 2 years (5-10 times a month rough average).  I ignored it for a while as I only use excel for very basic spreadsheets but after deciding to look it up I realized it was a much bigger (and older) problem.  I can't believe Microsoft hasn't deigned to comment on this issue yet.  Now I am curious to see how long we can keep this thread up.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-02-20T16:38:59+00:00

    Tumbleweed from Microsoft. 

    I feel like they are treating me like a muppet. Happens because I have no recourse.... A lot of things wrong here.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-02-20T16:10:29+00:00

    Same problem here. It's driving me crazy.

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-02-14T19:02:30+00:00

    I can't believe it's 2019 and this issue is still a thing

    I get it at random intervals, from three different computers, one of them with W8, the other two with W10.

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