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
    2021-01-18T20:28:03+00:00

    Same. Please add me to the ticket. This just popped up for me in the last week while using our iPad pro. Excel is one of the primary functions I use so this needs to be addressed. I just looked and it seems the issue was logged back in November and its mid January so a solution/explanation should be coming shortly. 

    Microsoft just asked me if TexasBarbellSynidate's reply was helpful.

    It is not helpful because MICROSOFT needs to take action to resolve the issue.

    We really need those monitoring this thread to provide a response from Microsoft with a commitment to fix this error.  This was not an error in the prior release.  This must be resolved.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-01-20T20:27:22+00:00

    I am also frustrated with this aspect of Excel. When I’m at work I have a wireless keyboard which i can work around with the directional arrows (I just found out about the F8 function) but when I’m at home Excel is bordeline useless

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-01-21T20:26:03+00:00

    I am having this same issue, I have an iPad Pro and I find that I have to continuously save the database I am working on and shut down the app to resolve.  Is this somethat is a bug that could be addressed?

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  4. 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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  5. 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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