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
    2015-03-04T00:54:19+00:00

    I have been running Excel in safe mode for two days and the skipping to another workbook problem still occurs occasionally.  Excel certainly runs much faster in safe mode, so that is an advantage.

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  2. 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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  3. Anonymous
    2015-08-21T14:22:14+00:00

    I have a new company issued laptop with Windows 7 Enterprise and Office 2013 loaded running on a corporate network. I work daily in Excel with multiple spreadsheets open. I'm usually only editing one, and have others open to read initial data presented for me to work on. Normally I've already started working on only one, but with emails coming in, I'll open others to review. When I get back to working on my initial spreadsheet, and hit return to go to the next cell to change, I am unable to type in the cell or do anything until I hit return. When I do it brings one of the new spreadsheet up that I have NOT been editing. Once that happens, I can minimize that spreadsheet, go back to my working sheet and continue. This happens many times each day, and is very annoying.

    After posting this, I counted usually editing two cells before I have to jump back to the same workbook in which nothing has changed.

    Any help would be appreciated!!!

    Thanks,

    Chris

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-08-22T18:14:09+00:00

    Chris,

    This is my problem exactly. I'm using Windows 8.  I have never been able to solve it. 

    I'm about to start using a different laptop, so it will be interesting to see if it still occurs.

    John

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-08-30T18:14:27+00:00

    Update:

    I have been using the different laptop for a week and still have the problem.

    It is about a 2 year old Lenovo.  The Windows 8 operating system was reloaded and then upgraded to Windows 10.  It has a fresh Office download and installation.

    So the problem is not due to the specific computer or operating system and is not due to a specific Excel installation.

    John

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