Microsoft Excel - How to Turn Off Auto-Selection of Multiple Cells

Anonymous
2020-11-13T00:09:21+00:00

Hello Microsoft Community,

I have Excel for my iPad Air 3. I’ve come across this problem that seems to randomly show itself when I am working on a spreadsheet. When using my apple pencil or fingers, I can click and move around no problem. Yet, sometimes, it then starts to auto-select multiple cells when I click a new cell. I need this to stop! I don’t know if I keep pressing some button? Searching through Google hasn’t revealed anything. I can’t get it to stop unless i restart Excel or turn off/on my ipad. But the problem keeps showing up.

As an example, let’s say I was working on B4. Once this wonky setting takes ahold, a new selection of cells is highlighted using B4 as its starting point if I click any other cell in the Excel spreadsheet.

Please help! Thank you

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-01-24T04:56:41+00:00

    Same problem. Incredibly frustrating, and even more frustrating that there still isnt a fix. Googling the issue it appears extended selection mode is randomly being engaged and its impossible to turn off.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-01-23T02:05:59+00:00

    Add me too. It’s been happening for a few months on my iPad Pro.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-01-22T18:22:19+00:00

    Very frustrating. Please add me to the list of users experiencing the problem.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-01-22T18:10:43+00:00

    I see this is still an active problem. It has been 2 months with no solution.

    Please escalate this to a supervisor or manager and have them contact me directly and also reply to the whole group with a solution asap.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-01-22T18:09:08+00:00

    I have the same problem. It is making Excel unusable. This should be a *very* simple fix. Actually, it shouldn’t even happen at all. 

    Is there a solution? The first question came in Novermber. If there is a solution, how do I find it? there are multiple pages.

    Is there any equivalent of an ‘esc’ (escape) button on a PC? That would come in extremely handy.

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