Excel 2004 --> control-shift-8 broken?

[Bryan Harris]

Could someone confirm that control-shift-8 is broken in Excel 2004?

It's supposed to expand the selection to include all non-blank cells
around the currently selected cell, but it does nothing for me in
Excel 2004...

Thanks.

- B

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Given the changes in keyboard shortcuts from XL98 to XL01 to XLv.X, I'd
question the use of "supposed to", and "broken", but CTRL-SHIFT-8 was
not assigned in my XL04 version.

However, like any other keyboard shortcut, that took about 15 seconds to
change:

Tools/Customize/Customize Keyboard...

In the All Commands category, choose the Select Current Region item.
Enter CTRL-SHIFT-8 in the keyboard shortcut textbox and click Add.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Given the changes in keyboard shortcuts from XL98 to XL01 to XLv.X, I'd
question the use of "supposed to", and "broken", but CTRL-SHIFT-8 was
not assigned in my XL04 version.

Sorry, I was a bit too glib - I know that Help does say CTRL-SHIFT-* is
supposed to select the current region...