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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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Hello, I would like to be added to this ticket as well. I can’t seem to unselect once this auto selection feature starts acting up. I tried to chat with an agent and was told there was no other support but this message board for iPad users. Thank you.
Same problem here. Seems that we started the research some time ago, November? Really? We couldn’t fix this by now????
Please include me in this complaint. Thank you,
I’ve paid for the 365 subscription and have the same challenge. I don’t recall this being a problem in prior years so it appears tied to some update to the app. It’s so annoying.
I have had the same challenge, multiple times in multiple documents. It’s extraordinarily frustrating and seems to happen randomly.
There needs to be a fix or an addition that allows us to return to normal input with a keystroke. Found articles online that say this can be accomplished on a compter with the use of the F8 key. We don’t have that option on iPad even with a keyboard.
HELP!!!!