Can't Deselect Cells - Please Help

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Pete

Hello all....

I am currently unable to do anything in Excel. I must
have hit somekind of hot key because I am stuck in a cell
selection mode of some kind. I have seen this before but
forgot how to turn it off. No matter where I move my
mouse it is just creating this selection window and I
can't even select my drop down menus to close the
application. Please help.

Pete
 
Hi
do you see the characters 'EXT' in your taskbar. If yes you have
enabled the 'Extended' mode. Try hitting F8 to disable this
 
Hi Pete,
Since you cannot access the menus it is not Extended(EXT)
or Additional Areas (ADD) that can be rectified by PF8 once
or twice. You have a different problem see
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/ghosting.txt
in a couple of days report back which items *usually*
worked for you. The more permanent solution is to find
the right mouse driver. In any case you can always terminate
from the Task Manager, but you will come up the same as
before so check over the list of things to try.

HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

 
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