[Solved] worksheets doing wierd things, dont know why

Hello,

I'm going to try this again. Apparently I goofed the first time and didn't post properly. Hopefully someone can help me.

While working on my spreadsheet today I must have touched something I shouldn't have because my spreadsheet is stuck in some kind of mode that I cannot get out of.

I cannot type or make any changes, type in any information, change anything.

When I touch a cell it turns blue.

If I arrow up or down it goes to the top and bottom of the data and the right and left goes to the right and left of the data.

This is not just on this one workbook. It is for every spreadsheet I open or try to start new. So the problem is something I did to Excel program not just the workbook or spreadsheet.

I have used excel for many years but not for a lot of extensive stuff so I am stuck!

I appreciate any help you can give me.

THX
Debra

Sounds to me like a sticky Ctrl key.

BSB

That's what I think but I don't know which one.... :-(

Well it can only be one of two... Time to start dismantling that keyboard.

I am sorry for the Re-post but could not do what I was asked to do to fix the first one. I'm new on this board so I'm trying my best to navigate but couldn't edit the title only the body. So then I tried to delete the post and start over and couldn't find it.

Thank you FDibbins...

I was in panic mode because I was on a deadline and just couldn't figure it out. So I left it alone for a little while and went on another job for a few hours and came back to it. I'm not sure how, I'm not sure why and I'm not sure when it all happened but when I came back to it (by the way it's on a laptop so I couldn't just swap out a keyboard) I opened up a different spreadsheet that I didn't care what happened to the data in and started pressing every key on the board with and without the SHIFT & CTRL keys and as mysteriously as it started, it stopped. So now...everything appears to be back to normal.

I want to thank everyone that tried to help me, I appreciate your time and I'm glad I found this forum and will try my best to follow the rules and guidelines in the future. Now that I have found you, I see by reading other posts that you could come in handy. While I've switched over to Excel over 20 years ago (former Lotus user) I use it daily but usually not for complicated and/or serious calculations, I do from time to time run into a few snags that I wish I could take short cuts on that I know are available but I don't understand how to use and end up taking the long way home.

So again thank you for your time.

LA

I think you are probably right FDibbins and I appreciate the assistance. I hated Quatro Pro...only tried it for one day and that was enough. Really loved Lotus though and which Excel had one of my favorite functions. If it has it I've never been able to figure out how to set it...lol.