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

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

This has been happening to be since October, very frustrating. Microsoft, please include me with any updates on this issue.

That only worked for me the once but I have a Logitech keyboard and I found that using the arrows in the bottom right corner helped move me to the cell I wanted. The reboot I did on Thursday didn’t resolve the problem for long, very frustrating.

Please add me to list of subscribers having trouble.  It’s been more than a month since someone submitted a support ticket.  Surely it can’t be that hard to revert back to the pre-update version.  I should have just stuck with the native. Ipad spreadsheet app.

Please add me to the list as well. I’m glad I found this thread – good to know that I am not the only one with this crazy bug.

Today are new Office updates available. So far everything works fine for me. Let‘s hope it doesn‘t change :)

And they finally updated the unified Office app for iPad (Word, Excel, Powerpoint in one app like on the iPhone).