Squirrely Cursor Arrow Keys

[Bill Martin]

Suddenly my cursor arrow keys are behaving strangely in Excel 2003
11.8117.8107. Traditionally when I hit the down arrow key, the selected
cell drops down one row, etc. Now if I hit the down arrow key, it drives
the window elevator on the right down a notch -- so the selected cell
remains the same, but the whole spreadsheet moves up a bit. Same with the
other three arrow keys -- they control the window sliders now, not the
selected cell. No other applications seem to show this behavior - not Word
even.

The only change I can think of is that I just installed the Office update
this morning, but everything was still ok after that for a few hours. I
tried closing out of all things Excel and reopening them, but I get the same
effect. Presumably I've accidentally struck some key combination that told
Excel to do and to store the configuration this but I can't find it anywhere
in the Options panels.

Does this sound familiar? Anyone know how to get back to the normal state?

Thanks.

Bill

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

How about the scroll lock key hit by mistake?


regards,

Peo Sjoblom

 

[Bill Martin]

Duh... That did it. I'm slightly confused why the scroll lock key would
only effect Excel and not all the other stuff I've got running, but I'm
happy to have been proved wrong!

Thanks.

Bill
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[Sandy Mann]

Duh... That did it. I'm slightly confused why the scroll lock key would
only effect Excel and not all the other stuff I've got running, but I'm
happy to have been proved wrong!

Microsoft Works - well at least Works 4a - does not respond to the scrol.
lock key at all

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