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Thank you in advance for your time. I've been troubled recently Excel's behavior and have yet to devise a search query that finds the answer online.



Excel has started acting strangely recently with regard to copying cells. Anytime I touch the scroll bar (or change tabs on the ribbon), it will copy the cell last selected (so the lines around it start moving, if you know what I mean). I don't know why, as I haven't fooled with any settings. I have confirmed that it is not me accidentally holding down on my touch pad (I use a red keyboard nub to navigate the UI). I have gotten the same behavior when I use JUST the touch pad and different buttons. I have new workbooks and checked old ones; it does this in all of them.

It's irritating the heck out of me--I actually uninstalled and reinstalled Excel to see if it would stop, and it didn't. Has anybody experienced this? Does anybody have advice? It's making it very difficult to work on more than one workbook at a time, as I'm always carrying over the cell that's automatically been copied.

Sincerely,

CA

Some time ago, a Skype addon called Click and Call interfered with Excel's behavior.

If you have that, uninstall and reinstall the addon, maybe it will help .

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Dear Pecoflyer,

Thank you for the advice! Anxious to see if the problem was Skype-related, I uninstalled the software. The weird behavior stopped! Huzzah!

I intend on reinstalling it eventually and seeing if I can disable the feature. MS owns Skype now; they should make it compatible!

Thanks again,

CrabApple

You're welcome

AFAIK the problem has been solved some time ago and reinstalling the add on will not cause any further problems

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Pecoflyer,

I don't know what happened, but it's started up again. I'm guessing some other program must be interfering. I have a lot of Lenovo software on my computer (I didn't do a clean install when I got it); if I'm lucky the next version of Office will play more nicely.

If you have any other ideas, though, please let me know.

Thanks again,

CrabApple

In desperation I tried installing Office 2013. It does the same d#@* thing in Excel 2013, too! This is ridiculous, I'm so frustrated.