ctrl-; shortcut stopped working

hkruiniger

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I'm using Excel 2013. I use the ctrl-; shortcut a lot for entering the current date in a cell, and ctrl-: for the current time. I've used them for many years without problem, but recently the date one has stopped - nothing happens when I enter it. The time one still works fine. I ran a Repair on MS Office, to no effect.

I guess something is hijacking the ctrl-; sequence, possibly some program I've installed. How to detect?

Hans
 

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This is just a possibility for when this exact thing happened to me. You don't happen to have Clavier installed on your system do you?
 
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This is just a possibility for when this exact thing happened to me. You don't happen to have Clavier installed on your system do you?

Thanks for the response Scott - I'm not familiar with Clavier, and I don't believe I have anything like that installed. However, I started to look at what I installed lately, and decided to uninstall TinySpell. Guess what, ctrl-; came back!

Have a great day!

Hans
 
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