Unable to Deselect Cells in Excel 2000?

I'm currently running Windows XP sp2 on a brand new computer. I installed
Office2000 Small Business. Excel was acting strangely - if I clicked on a
cell, I was completely unable to click anywhere else. I could not deselect
it. Moving the cursor around just selected everything that it scrolled over.
I could not quit except by bringing up the Windows Task Manager and ending it
from there. This occured both when opening the program to a blank spreadsheet
or opening it from a saved spreadsheet (even ones that worked perfectly well
on my old computer). I downloaded all the updates from Microsoft that I could
find, restarted, and the problem persists.

Try re-installing the drivers for your wheel mouse

--
HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
nick_hodgeTAKETHISOUT@zen.co.uk.ANDTHIS


"ghostfire" <ghostfire@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B86E006F-5B97-47EF-A0C6-DF7CA80D07B8@microsoft.com...
> I'm currently running Windows XP sp2 on a brand new computer. I installed
> Office2000 Small Business. Excel was acting strangely - if I clicked on a
> cell, I was completely unable to click anywhere else. I could not deselect
> it. Moving the cursor around just selected everything that it scrolled
> over.
> I could not quit except by bringing up the Windows Task Manager and ending
> it
> from there. This occured both when opening the program to a blank
> spreadsheet
> or opening it from a saved spreadsheet (even ones that worked perfectly
> well
> on my old computer). I downloaded all the updates from Microsoft that I
> could
> find, restarted, and the problem persists.

I re-installed the drivers, and that didn't work either.

"Nick Hodge" wrote:

> Try re-installing the drivers for your wheel mouse
>
> --
> HTH
> Nick Hodge
> Microsoft MVP - Excel
> Southampton, England
> nick_hodgeTAKETHISOUT@zen.co.uk.ANDTHIS
>
>
> "ghostfire" <ghostfire@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B86E006F-5B97-47EF-A0C6-DF7CA80D07B8@microsoft.com...
> > I'm currently running Windows XP sp2 on a brand new computer. I installed
> > Office2000 Small Business. Excel was acting strangely - if I clicked on a
> > cell, I was completely unable to click anywhere else. I could not deselect
> > it. Moving the cursor around just selected everything that it scrolled
> > over.
> > I could not quit except by bringing up the Windows Task Manager and ending
> > it
> > from there. This occured both when opening the program to a blank
> > spreadsheet
> > or opening it from a saved spreadsheet (even ones that worked perfectly
> > well
> > on my old computer). I downloaded all the updates from Microsoft that I
> > could
> > find, restarted, and the problem persists.
>
>
>

Try tapping the wheel a few times. If this doesn't work try a plain mouse
and see if the problem goes away. In all reported cases I've seen it's
tracked back to the wheel mouse

--
HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
nick_hodgeTAKETHISOUT@zen.co.uk.ANDTHIS


"ghostfire" <ghostfire@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:924DD294-456C-4849-9773-E691E1324B1A@microsoft.com...
>I re-installed the drivers, and that didn't work either.
>
> "Nick Hodge" wrote:
>
>> Try re-installing the drivers for your wheel mouse
>>
>> --
>> HTH
>> Nick Hodge
>> Microsoft MVP - Excel
>> Southampton, England
>> nick_hodgeTAKETHISOUT@zen.co.uk.ANDTHIS
>>
>>
>> "ghostfire" <ghostfire@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:B86E006F-5B97-47EF-A0C6-DF7CA80D07B8@microsoft.com...
>> > I'm currently running Windows XP sp2 on a brand new computer. I
>> > installed
>> > Office2000 Small Business. Excel was acting strangely - if I clicked on
>> > a
>> > cell, I was completely unable to click anywhere else. I could not
>> > deselect
>> > it. Moving the cursor around just selected everything that it scrolled
>> > over.
>> > I could not quit except by bringing up the Windows Task Manager and
>> > ending
>> > it
>> > from there. This occured both when opening the program to a blank
>> > spreadsheet
>> > or opening it from a saved spreadsheet (even ones that worked perfectly
>> > well
>> > on my old computer). I downloaded all the updates from Microsoft that I
>> > could
>> > find, restarted, and the problem persists.
>>
>>
>>