cannot perform any functions when excel opens

When I open excel and click onto work sheet, the program
locks and highlights all cells when I move mouse. Will
not release even when I place mouse off the page and
unable to close program without using task manager. I
have excel 2000 with SP3, running windows XP SP2. Any
ideas without re-installing. All other Office programs
work fine.

I am having the exact same problem with 2003, plus if I click on another
worksheet in the workbook the program locks and has what looks like a piece
of paper above the cursor. Anyone give you an answer yet?

"Keith" wrote:

> When I open excel and click onto work sheet, the program
> locks and highlights all cells when I move mouse. Will
> not release even when I place mouse off the page and
> unable to close program without using task manager. I
> have excel 2000 with SP3, running windows XP SP2. Any
> ideas without re-installing. All other Office programs
> work fine.
>
>

Keith,
I reinstalled Excel and had the same problem. I noticed that there was an
additional toolbar on the bottom of my screen. Don't know how it got there,
but it was for speech recognition. I removed it according to the hep
instructions through the control panel and now excel is working properly.
Give it a try.
Mike

"Keith" wrote:

> When I open excel and click onto work sheet, the program
> locks and highlights all cells when I move mouse. Will
> not release even when I place mouse off the page and
> unable to close program without using task manager. I
> have excel 2000 with SP3, running windows XP SP2. Any
> ideas without re-installing. All other Office programs
> work fine.
>
>