Excel selection of a cell

Try pressing F8. Could be you've got extended selection switched on.

Alternatively, you may have pressed the Scroll key. That can be a pain.

Regards, TMS

Did the F8 fix it this time?

are you using page layout view?

And nothing to do with Scrolling? It would be interesting, but possibly tedious, to track which applications are being used and when the fault appears. Do you use any "unusual" applications?

pretty much every report of this I've seen has been using page layout view and switching to normal view seems to clear it. I've also seen reports that changing the zoom level slider may help.

I rarely use Page View other than to adjust page breaks. I don't tend to do any data entry or build any formulae in that mode. So, can't really comment.

The picture in the first post doesn't really tell me anything other than there are three cells selected.

If, for example, cell H16 was selected and I pressed F8 (extend selection) selecting any other cell would, as the name implies, extend the selection to include a rectangle bounded by the original cell and the newly selected cell. The only way to get back to a single cell selection is to select the original cell.

I've tried Googling this: http://bit.ly/LMU4mZ

The posts seem to go back to 2008/2009 and they all have the same theme: click one cell, get several selected. In the threads I have looked at, the description is the same as yours, there are no solutions, just several workarounds including F8, Page Layout View, exiting Excel and so on. Other suggestions relate to the zoom level.

Other than this, I'm out of ideas.

Regards, TMS