Excel 2016 - Cannot type anything into a cell all of a sudden

Anonymous
2017-04-14T07:08:05+00:00

Hi,

I am experiencing a problem with Excel 2016 that is really frustrating.

I am working normally in excel 2016, when all of a sudden I cannot type anything into a cell. If I press Ecs nothing happens. I do not have macros, nor protected sheet or cells. I am working with multiple (2 or more) open excel files at the same time. I tried to figure out, if I press some combination of keys that would cause this, but found nothing. I, however, can move the mouse over the sheet and click different cells. I think the arrow keys work as well.

The strange thing that always "solves" the problem is pressing Enter. Pressing the Enter opens another Excel file that is already opened, and after simply going back to the first one, I then can work on normally. This can occur once, twice but sometimes even 10-times in a single day! Just terrible.

This is time demanding, many times I write into a cell and then see that the cell is still blank, I press the enter to make it work again, going back... - I cannot work like this.

When I was working with the same files in Excel 2013 and 2010 I hadn't have experienced such problems. 

I already read some other forums with people experiencing the same problem, but haven't found any solution yet.

Do you have any?

Thank you!

P.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-09-17T16:39:23+00:00

    I hope very much that this turns out to be the answer. You obviously know what you are talking about and your instructions are clear - all too often I follow this kind of instruction and don't find the links as described. Of course with a problem that comes and goes it's hard to be sure it is sorted but fingers crossed. If you have cracked it you deserve a medal (or some of Bill Gates' cash).

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-08-16T16:34:59+00:00

    STOP SENDING THESE NOTICES.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-08-15T22:33:31+00:00

    I have experienced this problem for more than a year too. It happens on my work computer, my laptops, and my home desktop. All separate issues of Microsoft Excel. It is definitely a problem in the software. I have tried to track all key strokes and anything that leads up to the problem. New files, old files . . . it doesn't matter. It is also intermittent. I can by typing away in my cells and then all of a sudden can't type anything on the worksheet. If I tab to a different worksheet in the same file and click, and then go back to the original worksheet I can type in one cell, then I have to repeat the process all over again. I can't believe this hasn't happened to people who work at Microsoft!! It is a very annoying problem.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-08-08T13:59:23+00:00

    No one has a solution. Microsoft seems to be ignoring it as well.

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