Why does excel highlight two cells

Results 1 to 6 of 6. Excel is selecting multiple cells when I place cursor into just one cell. Attached Images Capture. Register To Reply. Re: Excel is selecting multiple cells when I place cursor into just one cell.

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Excel IT Pro Discussions. This forum is for general questions and feedback related to Microsoft Excel all versions as they pertain to the IT Pro community. Sign in to vote. When I am working with Excel , I try to select a single cell however multiple cells get highlighted.

It will highlight usually the next cells in the same row. If I click the cell and it does its highlighting thing, I usually have to click away in another cell and then re-click the first one to get it to go away. Also, if I just try to ignore the highlighted cells and try to work as normal, when I try to tab to the next cell in the row, it will only let me tab between the cells in the column that are highlighted. It is not a mouse problem, I am not accidentally selecting multiple cells, and it happens on documents I created as well as documents others have created.

It will also happens on a new, blank document or others completely stripped of any kind of potentially hidden formatting. I have not tried to re-install Office yet, but that will be next step if no one has a solution.

Tuesday, November 23, PM. Wednesday, November 24, AM. Monday, December 6, PM. That forwards to another site. This seems to be a bug.

Wednesday, May 25, PM. I just want to thank the person who wrote about this issue and the person s that had the answer.

It's been driving me crazy, but the F8 toggle did the trick! Wednesday, September 14, PM. The F8 toggle doesn't always work. This is a bug with Excel and Microsoft is aware of it but doesn't seem to know how to fix it.

Friday, February 10, PM. Doesn't work for mine either Tried the f8, same results Any updates on this yet??? Monday, April 9, PM. I am having the same problem in MS Excel and F8 does not solve it.

Thursday, April 26, PM. I I first came across this problem today and it would appear that the only other potential fix is to use the zoom feature in the bottom rhs of the screen and zoom out and then back in to your original size and this seems to cure the problem. Good luck. Thursday, May 31, PM. Good Luck! Proposed as answer by weaver Sunday, April 26, AM. Monday, July 2, PM. It seems to happen when I scroll to a part of the sheet that was previously off-screen.

Zooming seems to fix it for now. Tuesday, July 3, PM. I have this same issue. F8 has nothing to do with it. Thursday, October 18, AM. F8 did not help me at all. It only made the two highlighted cells go to 6 cells.

And I thank the people who suggested that!! That was driving me crazy. Wednesday, November 7, PM. I've been dealing with this also. As soon as I do that I started getting random multiple cells being highlighted. I see in other replys that decreasing the zoom seems to help some people with this issue. It is just annoying anyway you look at it.

Thursday, December 20, PM. Microsoft take note that this is the way to reproduce it. Wednesday, March 6, AM. Hope this helps. Wednesday, June 26, PM. Change zoom level of your document up or down [this was only a temporary fix for me]. Monday, September 9, PM. I ran into the same problem using MS Excel My file was.