Hard to select first worksheet tab

[Dennis Marks]

When you click on the icon in the upper left of a window a box appears with:
Restore
Move
Size
Minimize
Maximize
Close
With Windows 7 the box also appears when clicking in the lower left of a
window. That is the same area as the first worksheet tab making it very
difficult to click it. Is there a solution to the problem?

 

[Dennis Marks]

Thia is an image of what I am referring to.
http://dmmarks.com/popup.jpg

 

[Daryl S]

Dennis -

Are you using a right-mouse click instead of a left-mouse click?

 

[Ross]

I have the same problem. I am left clicking but it does seem like it is the box that appears when you right click. Problem only occurs on the first worksheet tab and not any other tabs

 

[Piri]

This has to be the most frustrating thing about the Excel 2007 - I
have recently upgraded and am prepared to be patient with the radical
differences, the ribbons etc - but this one thing is a real piss-off.
I am now creating a blank worksheet and parking it at the left end of
the tab bar so I don't have to but up with this crap - but when the
tab bar bets full? the navigation buttons on the extreme left of the
tab bar behave the same way?
Hello MS - are you there?

Are there any fixes out there?

 

[rwells7722]

I've been having the same problem. Can't find anything about it except this
thread. Glad to know it's not me. I had hoped I could somehow reset my mouse,
but I haven't found a solution yet.

 

[Bob I]

Since this problem is so sporadic and infrequent perhaps the cause is
your mouse driver or video adapter driver?

 

[Gord Dibben]

Which problem would that be?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP