Spacebar and Escape Keys

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Marcy

My office uses Excel 2000 (I am used to XP and/or 97) and
I cannot seem to change some keyboard characterisitcs.
That is, the spacebar moves me to the next adjacent cell
(as does the tab key). I would prefer that only the
enter key does this. In addition, the escape key returns
the character that is to the left of the numbers in lower
case. (I can't display as this will erase all I have
written so far, as I just learned!).
I have tried correcting this in the options section of
Excel but to no avail. Any ideas?

Thanks!
 
I use xl2k at work and xl2002 at home and have never seen this.

Spacebar types the space character--it doesn't move the selected cell.

The things I'd look at are keyboards--does it happen all the time?
and starting excel in safe mode
windows start button|Run
Excel /safe
Open your workbook and try it out

Maybe (though, unlikely I would think) you have a macro that's trying to help.
 
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