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cell selection

ResolvedVersion 2007

Tina has attended:
Excel Intermediate course

Cell selection

When attempting to select an individual cell in a worksheet sometimes Excel highlights 2 or more adjacent cells in the same column. This has happened several times on worksheets created by/received from others which I've then been editing. This happens randomly, irrespective of cell contents, and I haven't inadvertently used "drag". Is there an obvious answer on why this might happen, or it is just a gremlin?

RE: Cell selection

Hi Tina

Thanks for getting in touch. This can happen if the worksheet is zoomed out slightly. Perhaps try resetting the zoom level via View > 100% and see if that improves things.

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Thu 21 Mar 2013: Automatically marked as resolved.

Excel tip:

Hide columns in an Excel 2010 Worksheet

If you don’t want part of the Excel worksheet to be visible or when you don’t want certain data to appear in print outs, then a simple solution is to temporarily hide a column or multiple columns.

Hiding a single column:

1)Right click on the column header of the column you want to hide (this is the grey bar along the top edge of the worksheet)
2)Choose Hide from the menu
3)This column will now be hidden from view

Hide more than one column:

1)In the column header drag select to highlight the columns you want hidden
2)Right click and choose Hide from the menu

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