Cursor changes to white arrow w/ icon-like white document attached; Can do NOTHING in Excel

[K.C. NEWMAN]

Sorry but this is a cross post, but do I ever need an answer, and I'm
watching the View cell tick 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 ... and no one has an answer yet.
Anyway ...

I have no idea what I pressed, but the cursor is a white arrow attached to
an icon-like white sheet of paper. When I move over the worksheet tabs, a
black triangle is created. When I move across the worksheet, the
[WhiteArrow/WhitePaperIcon] moves but allows no action whatsoever. Moving
across the command bars, every action is prohibited by a circle with a line
through it. Even the buttons to close or minimize are off-limits!

What did I press, or, more importantly, how do I get out of it? This has
happened before, and for the life of me and for the life of my fingers which
have tried every keystroke imaginable (except one, obviously), I cannot
think of what I did to make the thing disappear.

Thanks for your help. Immediate help would be even better as closing and
re-opening Excel does nothing ... that awful [WhiteArrow/WhitePaperIcon]
returns like the plague.

Thanks.

kcnew
Tampa

 

[Dave Peterson]

Try this to see if it gets reproduced.

Click and hold a worksheet tab and drag it to the right or left--or even over
the worksheet.

Is that the icon?

If yes, then mine goes back to normal when I let go of the mouse button. If
yours doesn't, maybe it's a sticky mouse button?????

Gently hit that mouse with a big old brick--or try another mouse next time it
happens. (If you hit too hard, you won't have to worry about that mouse's
sticky button ever again <vbg>.)

Sorry but this is a cross post, but do I ever need an answer, and I'm
watching the View cell tick 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 ... and no one has an answer yet.
Anyway ...

I have no idea what I pressed, but the cursor is a white arrow attached to
an icon-like white sheet of paper. When I move over the worksheet tabs, a
black triangle is created. When I move across the worksheet, the
[WhiteArrow/WhitePaperIcon] moves but allows no action whatsoever. Moving
across the command bars, every action is prohibited by a circle with a line
through it. Even the buttons to close or minimize are off-limits!

What did I press, or, more importantly, how do I get out of it? This has
happened before, and for the life of me and for the life of my fingers which
have tried every keystroke imaginable (except one, obviously), I cannot
think of what I did to make the thing disappear.

Thanks for your help. Immediate help would be even better as closing and
re-opening Excel does nothing ... that awful [WhiteArrow/WhitePaperIcon]
returns like the plague.

Thanks.

kcnew
Tampa