Mouse selection of a cell now follows cursor for ever

[Tony]

I am using Excel 2002 sp2 on W2K sp2.

When I load a spreadsheet and then click on one cell, the
operation highlights every cell when I move the mouse
cursor, even though I have released the mouse button.

This happens everytime I load a spreadsheet.

It started on W2K with no service packs and Office 2002
with no service packs. I installed W2K sp2 and Office 2002
sp2 and the problem disappeared for about a week. Now it is
back.

I tried to repair Office 2002 from the original CD. It did
stuff, and also deleted and updated registry values, but
there has been no change to the way Excel works.

When the cell is being highlighted, I can select programs
from the start menu and they all work fine. However, when I
move the mouseover the program window, with Excel opened
and faulted in the background, the cells are continually
being highlighted - as if Excel has not lost focus.

Can anyone shed some light on the problem?

Thanks,

Tony

 

[Pat Lee]

I am seeing the same problem with Excel 2003 on my
Toshiba laptop. It works and then will fail and only
restarting the computer and force quitting Excel will
solve the problem.

I am running the latest service packs and hot fixes for
XP and Excel 2003.

Pat

 

[Tony]

A quick update - I removed and reload Office 2002. It did
not work. I rebooted the PC. The first spreadsheet I tried
worked fine. (This was the test one that failed all
previous times). I tried a new (existing) spreadsheet and
the problem came back



I still have the problem.

Interestingly I installed Office 2002 direct from the CD
without installing the 2 service packs, so this means that
the problem exists with the vanilla Office 2002 and with
Office 2002 with Service Packs 1 and 2 installed.

 

[Jan Karel Pieterse]

Hi Tony,

A quick update - I removed and reload Office 2002. It did
not work. I rebooted the PC. The first spreadsheet I tried
worked fine. (This was the test one that failed all
previous times). I tried a new (existing) spreadsheet and
the problem came back

Sometimes it helps to simply click the mouse wheel.

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel MVP
www.jkp-ads.com

 

[Tony]

Hi Jan,

Thanks ... but I have no mouse wheel ... it is a 2 button
mouse and clicking one or both or tapping or dropping the
mouse makes no difference - along with the ESC, ALT, CTL,
ENTER F1..Fx, CTLF1..CTLFx etc keys

Problem is very persistent.



Tony

 

[Jan Karel Pieterse]

Hi Tony,

Thanks ... but I have no mouse wheel ... it is a 2 button
mouse

OK. Check if in Excel's status bar there is a box with EXT in it. If
so, pressing F8 should clear it and fix your problem.

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel MVP
www.jkp-ads.com

 

[Jean]

Tony,
I have the same issue, with a laptop touchpad... I was
hoping I was going to find an answer here, guess I'm
reassured I've found the same problem...
I can usually get it to die with an end program, but
that's about it. I haven't tried the F8, but it
definitely isn't a normal feature I've ever had before...
Cheers,
Jean

 

[Scott]

-----Original Message-----
Tony,
I have the same issue, with a laptop touchpad... I was
hoping I was going to find an answer here, guess I'm
reassured I've found the same problem...
I can usually get it to die with an end program, but
that's about it. I haven't tried the F8, but it
definitely isn't a normal feature I've ever had before...
Cheers,
Jean
.
I have the same problem and have posted a seperate

string regarding it. the f8 fix does not work in my
case. please help!!

 

[Willylew]

I have the same problem and have been searching the net to
find a soloution - so far no luck. Wish someone could
point me in the right direction

 

[Mark]

..... and I have the same problem!!! If I unplug the
mouse and use just the touchpad it still happens - only
way out is to end program thru task mgr. It seems as
though this question pops up every week or so in this
forum - come on Microsoft, tell us what's happening!!!