CTRL Spacebar no longer works

[Demosthenes]

Hi guys,

I have a long history working with Excel and I have always relied on the
keyboard shortcuts to zip through my heavy spreadsheet work.

For some reason that I cannot fathom, the keyboard shortcut for highlight
column, CTRL-Spacebar, no longer works. The shortcut for highlight row
(SHIFT-Spacebar) works just fine.

I have trawled the web for answers to my queries and the closest "I Don't
Know" answer is here:

http://groups.google.com.my/group/mi...f93f8e43915e66

I have tried using the CTRL-Spacebar shortcut in safe mode but it is still
not functioning.

Do any of you know of any reasons why this should be happening? The closest
answer I can think of is that another program is intercepting the
CTRL-Spacebar keystrokes. However, I can't remember installing anything
recently other than XP Service Pack 3.

All help is definitely appreciated!

PS: My Excel version is 2003

 

[Dave Peterson]

Do you have one of those programmable keyboards? Maybe it's been programmed to
do something different when ctrl-spacebar is hit???

And a silly guess...
Do you use multiple monitors?

 

[Demosthenes]

Hi Dave,

Nope, not using any programmable keyboards. Just using my Lenovo thinkpad.

And neither am I using multiple monitors.

I've been given suggestions that it's the language bar and that I may also
need to unregister Excel from the registry.

Tried these and nothing.

Argh!

 

[Dave Peterson]

I don't have another suggestion.

Maybe you could ask in a Lenovo forum to find out if it's related to the
thinkpad???