Excel 2007 : Automatic Selection

[saramattson]

When I try to select a single cell in Excel, it is automatically highlighting a range of cells. It does the same thing when I go to the left hand side and click on a row line, it automatically highlights, sometimes, 6 rows. Any idea how to fix this? I have a few people in my office also having the same problem.

[shg]

In extend mode? Hit F8 to toggle.

[saramattson]

sorry, but what is extend mode?

[shg]

From Help for keyboard shortcuts:

F8 Turn extend mode on or off. In extend mode, EXT appears in the status line, and the arrow keys extend the selection.

[saramattson]

I am not in extend mode. When this happens I do not use the arrow keys to make more selections, it just automatically highlights numerous cells with a single click.

[shg]

It isn't peculiar to arrow keys. Did you try it?

[saramattson]

I tried it on my, and a co-workers computer and it did not resolve the problem. Any other ideas? Thanks for your help btw

[shg]

What about StickyKeys in Control Panel > Accessibility Options, Keyboard?

[saramattson]

hmmmm not in stickykeys. darn

[shg]

Outta ammo, sara, sorry.

If I think of anything else, I'll post back.