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
    2020-12-30T12:59:02+00:00

    Same issue here , multiple devices , multiple versions and files .. started on last upgrade

    super annoying bug!!

    I have been having this same exact problem and it has made using excel virtually impossible and extremely frustrating! Nothing will get the cells to deselect unless I exit out and restart my computer. And now thats not even working. Please fix this issue!

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-12-30T04:03:00+00:00

    I am also seeing this issue, and it is very annoying!

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-12-28T11:35:47+00:00

    I have the same porblem.  It’s annoying enough to have to be working over the Chrismas break, but even more frustrating that is it taking so long for microsoft to identify and sort out this incredibly disabling bug that makes excel on an ipad impossible.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-12-25T00:49:03+00:00

    We appreciate your patience regarding this matter.

    The Internal Support team is still investigating this and were still working for a possible resolution.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-12-24T07:04:58+00:00

    Has a solution come up? I am still having the problem. It’s been ongoing for quite some time now which is a dissapointment.

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