Thanks for all the suggestions. I will watchfor those. I was able to fix
the problem by doing a complete shut down and restart. I did this on the
advise of a friend. He believed there is a "memory" to the application that
needed to be rebooted. I did not know about the F8 key and will keep that
in mind if it locks up again.

Thanks again
Jimmo

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

> Couple of things come to mind although "arrow keys don't work" is not too
> descriptive. Do they do nothing or move the sheet instead of the active cell?
>
> 1. You have your Scoll Lock key enabled.
>
> 2. You have hit F8 to get into Extended mode. Hit F8 again.
>
> 3. Tap your wheelie mouse roller a few times to get out of selection mode.
>
>
> Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
>
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:29:02 -0700, jimmo <jimmo@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> >is there a setting that isn't allowing my arrow keys to work in Excel?
> >Additionally, my cursor will not select a cell - it only highlites cells. I
> >can't use the menu bar or even quit out of excel with Ctrl+Alt+Del. Arrow
> >keys and cursor work in all other applications
>
>