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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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FYI, I have the same issue as described. I don't have any other insights to add right now, because this often happens when I am presenting in a meeting, and I don't have time to troubleshoot. I am on Windows 7 with Office 2013.
I am convinced that it is a consequence of the changes made to this 2013 version of excel.
Wouldn't it be nice if Microsoft actually did something about it?
I have experienced this problem and it seems to occur in workbooks with many sheets. The cell updated is in the last sheet I was in and appears the last active cell there.
John from NZ,
So you are now the third person on this thread with the same exact problem. (cshannon on 8/21/15 and me).
I think that you are the first to note that it jumps to the last active cell on the other workbook. I think that is the case with me also.
John R
I am having the same problem since getting Office 2013. I happens rather a lot. I have never had it jump to a cell or another sheet in the same workbook though; always to other workbooks.
The cell freezes and I have been transported to another workbook. It is important for me to work with multiple workbooks open. I never had this problem with any earlier version of Excel.
I believe the cause is inherent in the way workbooks are now 'kept separate' from each other.
I have noticed that it jumps to the last active cell used in that particular workbook.
I have also noticed that this happens an awful lot when the auto save function finishes saving all my open workbooks.
In the past I turned off the auto save function as I had a habit of saving my work regularly. I have not done that yet with 2013. Maybe that will fix the problem.