Keyboard in Excel will not work

[ambrose031]

The keyboard in my Excel program will not type. The
keyboard works in all other programs. What has happened,
and what can I do to fix the problem?

 

[Dave Peterson]

Does rebooting help?

If yes, then maybe it was a stuck key.

If no, can you try this:

close excel
windows start button|Run
excel /safe

Did that help?

Starting in Safe mode keeps lots of things from starting--including "helpful"
macros.

If that worked, then it's time for some detective work.

Chip Pearson has some instructions for finding problems at:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm

Essentially, you're going to move stuff out of your XLStart folder and uncheck
everything under Tools|Addins. (But keep track!)

Then one by one, you'll add one back and restart excel to see if that caused the
problem.