jacobrcotton
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Hey Everyone,
So I've got an unusual problem with MS Excel that seems to be happening to (1) only me and (2) all spreadsheets that I open.
(1) Every time I enter text into a cell, Excel will automatically insert "^" at the beginning of that text. For instance, in a header row I would normally enter "Date of Birth", hit tab to the next column and continue on my merry way. However, now when I enter "Date of Birth" and hit tab, when I go back to that column the cell entry is "^Date of Birth". And this is happening every single time I enter any text.
(2) Additionally, every time I click on a cell adjacent to a hidden cell, that hidden cell will automatically unhide itself. For example, if Row 23 is hidden and I click on cell J24, automatically all of Row 23 unhides itself.
(3) Last symptom I've noticed is that when using Ctrl+Arrow to move quickly around the spreadsheets, this is no longer taking me to the "end" or "to the last cell". It's now only taking me a fixed 27 columns or 27 rows. This is the case even when I have moved well beyond where I have data stored in columns or rows.
I know that this is a symptom of my laptop only, as (1) it is happening to all my spreadsheets and (2) I can work on the spreadsheets on someone else's computer and these problems do not exist.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on here?
Thanks!
So I've got an unusual problem with MS Excel that seems to be happening to (1) only me and (2) all spreadsheets that I open.
(1) Every time I enter text into a cell, Excel will automatically insert "^" at the beginning of that text. For instance, in a header row I would normally enter "Date of Birth", hit tab to the next column and continue on my merry way. However, now when I enter "Date of Birth" and hit tab, when I go back to that column the cell entry is "^Date of Birth". And this is happening every single time I enter any text.
(2) Additionally, every time I click on a cell adjacent to a hidden cell, that hidden cell will automatically unhide itself. For example, if Row 23 is hidden and I click on cell J24, automatically all of Row 23 unhides itself.
(3) Last symptom I've noticed is that when using Ctrl+Arrow to move quickly around the spreadsheets, this is no longer taking me to the "end" or "to the last cell". It's now only taking me a fixed 27 columns or 27 rows. This is the case even when I have moved well beyond where I have data stored in columns or rows.
I know that this is a symptom of my laptop only, as (1) it is happening to all my spreadsheets and (2) I can work on the spreadsheets on someone else's computer and these problems do not exist.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on here?
Thanks!
