Jumping Cells and Rows

[Bernard]

Hi All,

I am still struggling with the problem that I have with my Excel and would
appreciate your help.
The problem is very simple: My up/down/left/right arrow moves two row or
columns, instead of one.
For example, if I am in cell C5, right arrow takes me to E5 (instead of D5),
and down arrow takes me to C7 (instead of C6).


Here is some more info:
I am using XP SP2
<Enter> behaves like down arrow. Pushing <Enter> in cell F4 takes you to
cell F6 (instead of F5)
I am using Office 2003 (I uninstalled Office 2003 and installed Office
2007, same problem)
I am not using wireless keyboard.
It was working fine until recently. This behavior is new.
The same problem happens with both new spreadsheets and also with the
spreadsheets created previously.
I am using KVM to share my Monitor, Keyboard and mouse with another
computer. I do not have this problem in the other PC.

Thanks in advance
Bernard

 

[Earl Kiosterud]

Barnard,

I've never seen that behavior in Excel. I'd sure want to rule out the KVM switch as the
culprit. If there's a way to plug the keyboard (same keyboard if possible) directly into
the machine, bypassing the KVM switch, it'd be worth trying.

Also, and this is a bit of a stretch, it might be worth playing with the keyboard controls
(particularly the typamatic settings) in the Windows Control Panel. You never know.

For those of you that don't know what a KVM switch is, it's a device to which you attach one
keyboard, monitor and mouse, then on to the keyboard, monitor and mouse ports of multiple
machines. A hot key sequence allows you to select which machine the keyboard and mouse are
currently "talking" to, and whose screen image you will see. It's for where you have
multiple machines, but don't want multiple keyboards, monitors and mouses (eh?) on the desk,
and only need to work with one machine at a time.

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