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Excel will not let me click into cells or incorrect cell is selected randomly
Hi, This is an ongoing issue that I've been having for years across platforms, computers, versions of excel and workbooks. Basicially, one of two things happen: 1-I click on a cell but nothi...
Let me share my observation of this problem, for a while now.
For me, this problem is repeated for some specific files, while does not happen for other files. Also, I have seen a lot of excel glitches to percolate to files where the data is copy pasted to new files, etc. Hence we have quarantined these specific files, so to say, to stop further contamination, in absence of a better solution.
Try to start a new file, right from template, with no other excel file open, on a fresh start of windows and excel, and see if you still face this issue. If not, then you may be sailing in the same boat.
Maybe this will help some. For others, please do try to post, in reply, the behavior that you observed, to get a larger grasp of the issue.
Thanks for this. For sure it affects some files and not others, but I haven't been able to find a correlation. I wonder if copying the file to create a new one can possibly make any difference?
Note to Microsoft: here we are again, many months later. users discussing their own methods to try to work around this, while in the meantime you've totally abandoned us and continue to charge us for a faulty product. There must be laws against knowingly selling a faulty product and refusing to engage with customers who purchased it? Absolutely disgraceful.
Note to Microsoft: here we are again, many months later. users discussing their own methods to try to work around this, while in the meantime you've totally abandoned us and continue to charge us for a faulty product. There must be laws against knowingly selling a faulty product and refusing to engage with customers who purchased it? Absolutely disgraceful.
- Hi,
I posted some time ago about this problem and have received many replies with lots of workarounds. This seems to be part of the problem as we, the end user, are attempting to create workarounds for a Microsoft product.
I have been using Excel since about 1993, I still have the 16 31/2 inch floppies for Office Pro. This is not our problem! This is Microsoft's problem and they appear to be nothing about it.
Imagine buying a new Tesla and it works perfectly but on some days it doesn't want to turn left, only right. Would you plan your trip so that the route was only straight and with only right turns, but if you had to turn right you would get out of your Tesla and with the aid of bystanders physically turn the car around the left turns?
Come on Microsoft, do your job and fix it!- I figured I should add that I'm having the same issue with a spreadsheet on onedrive. It's just one spreadsheet and it started happening randomly. I'm fortunate that someone mentioned the zoom in/out trick is a temp fix, as I've found no other fix for it, and this seems to be the fastest temp fix (just zooming in and out with a scroll wheel).
It has nothing to do with "fat finger", trackpads, or mice, nor is it dependent on formulas.
