Highlighting/ Selection Problems

[P Fruin]

I'm having a problem with information in my Office documents getting
highlighted when I don't want it to! Not sure if I've got some setting
enabled to cause this. I put my cursor on a cell in Excel, or somewhere in a
Word document or Outlook e-mail and when I move the cursor around, it
automatically highlights the areas I moe it past! Can anyone help?

 

[Dawn Crosier, Word MVP]

Sounds as though you have your Extend Selection turned on. Press your F8
key to toggle it on and off, to see if that helps.

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Microsoft MVP
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I'm having a problem with information in my Office documents getting
highlighted when I don't want it to! Not sure if I've got some setting
enabled to cause this. I put my cursor on a cell in Excel, or somewhere in a
Word document or Outlook e-mail and when I move the cursor around, it
automatically highlights the areas I moe it past! Can anyone help?

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[P Fruin]

Thank you Dawn! I've only been using these programs for 15+ years and I never
knew about this - or had this problem before! But I use F7 all the time to
spell chack so I'm probably hitting F8 by mistake and enabling that function.
I've got a new computer though too - and Vista - and lots of funny things
have ben happening since I got it! My MS keyboard is doing weird things -
like the space bar often does not work and the hot keys along the top no
longer work. Any ideas on that?

 

[Dawn Crosier, Word MVP]

Sorry, I am not aware of those problems, but I know Vista requires
special drivers, so maybe you need to make sure you have the proper
drivers for your keyboard?

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Dawn Crosier
Microsoft MVP
"Education Lasts a Lifetime"
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to the newsgroup so that others can learn as well.

Thank you Dawn! I've only been using these programs for 15+ years and I never
knew about this - or had this problem before! But I use F7 all the time to
spell chack so I'm probably hitting F8 by mistake and enabling that function.
I've got a new computer though too - and Vista - and lots of funny things
have ben happening since I got it! My MS keyboard is doing weird things -
like the space bar often does not work and the hot keys along the top no
longer work. Any ideas on that?

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