Bit of an odd one!
If you are familiar with VBA, put this code in a general module, give it a shortcut (to make it easy to run from any sheet) and try it out when the button misbehaves and lets see what happens. If it works, then you have a workaround, and if it does the same thing, then we know a little bit more. 

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