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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 aswell.
Please get this sorted
thanks
Hi, please add me on the loop wating for the asnwer from Microsoft.
Thanks
I have just done a full reboot of my iPad (5th gen) and the problem has gone away. I know this is a temporary fix but it is quite some time since it last happened to me. A fix would be much appreciated.
I’m having the same problem. I see this has been going on for months. I only noticed it a few weeks ago (over the holidays, I believe) and it is maddening. Now, getting out of Excel and coming back in is no longer clearing the problem like I think it was weeks ago.
In any event, whoever said this is tied to a recent release is absolutely correct. It is not sufficient to continue to say “Next Level is working on it”. Let’s have a status: how many people are working on this and has it been escallated to a level above “Next Level”?
This is a nightmare.
I’ve been having this issue as well and it’s been driving me insane. I use my ipad with a keyboard and have just come across a fix. If you hold down shift and select a cell then the next time you select a cell it should revert back to normal. It appears Excel keeps getting stuck in its extended selection mode. If you use a keyboard it makes the bug vastly more manageable until Microsoft fix it!