Navigating text in cells

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Jonathan Finney

Pretty much anywhere you come across an editable text field, you can use the
cursor keys and common shortcuts (End, Home, Ctl+Cursor, etc) to navigate
text.

Anywhere, that is, except when editing text in an Excel cell where these
keys are used to navigate between the cells.

I don't understand why Excel can't tell when I'm editing within a cell and
react to these keys in the same way as any other editable text area. I
can't find any setting to change this.

It drives me mad because I use Excel quite a lot. Is there any way to
change this behaviour?
 
goober said:
Press F2 to edit the cell and the directional arrows will work like you
want them to.
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Thanks Goober.

All these years I'd never noticed the difference between entering text and
editing text.
 
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