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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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I thought I was just going insane...I've been having this problem intermittently for about a month now. Newer laptop (bought back in April). It's ridiculous that this has been happening now for over 3 years and there's no clear solution on it.
Been so long since this was reported by seems like MS is not doing anything about it. I mean it cannot be just a few handful of users right? It affects a good number of users in our company, especially those who use Excel a lot.
Hi Pritesh Thakker,
Just want to tell you that, unfortunately enabeling "Disable hardware graphics acceleration" does not help either.
BR,
P.
Hi Cliff,
After using Excel 2016 in safe mode, the problem still persist.
I will try to use the same excel files on another computer in Excel 2016 as well, to see if this will change anything. I have the same problem in all Excel files, not only one.
BR,
P.
Hi Cliff,
thank you.
I will be running Excel in safe mode for the whole week to see what happens. Then I will get back to you, hopefully with good news.
BR,
P.