Excel 2003 cell selection problem

[techitch]

This has probably been discussed before -

When I select a cell in Excell 2003 the cursor seems to continue highlighting with out me asking it to.

I am running a Toshiba laptop with touch pad - but have also tried using a mouse and still get the same problem. Is there a way of getting to stop selecting? I only want to select one cell at a time!!!!

Thanks for your help

Techitch

[techitch]

More info in detail:

I have a problem with Excel: When I select any cell, then let go of the left mouse button – it acts as though I am permanently holding down the left mouse button; i.e. it tries to select multiple cells. I cannot de-select the left mouse button and cannot access any of the menu buttons. The only thing I can do is right click on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen and close excel – open it up again and have the same problem!

I thought it was a touchpad problem, so tried plugging in my mouse – same problem.

[IcemanND]

check and see if any of the accessibility options are turned on, and check drag lock in the mouse control panel.

[techitch]

IcemanND, cheers buddy - where abouts are the accessability options though?

[ringfinger]

Start > Programs > Accessories > Accessibility

[Redcloud]

I thought this was normal. A cell is always highlighted, except as noted above. There should be no reason to un-highlight it unless going on to another cell. Also, you will notice, that if you save the document with a cell highlighted, the highlighted cell will re-appear when document is opened. At least in Quatro Pro.

[TheFlash428]

I would take Iceman's advice.

One other thing that never seems to work but is always worth a try: Detect and repair or Check for updates (assuming you still have access to your install point). I don't know of any known bugs that would cause this problem though.

Do you have a similar problem with any other apps? (i.e. selecting text in a word doc). Or is it just in Excel? If your mouse/touchpad only behaves this way while working in Excel, it may just be an application bug.

[JRosenfeld]

I have occasionally observed that in Windows Explorer when selecting files. closing/reopening solves it there.

[Relampago]

We have the same exact problem on a toshiba tecra convertible laptop. It looks like toshiba's pointing software is not playing nice with excel has anyone found an answer?

[Anne Troy]

Sure. See my article.

http://www.officearticles.com/excel/cursor...osoft_excel.htm

Sorry to take so long replying!

[cybpsych]

your CTRL key (left or right) must've been jammed