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3 Replies Last post: May 20, 2009 8:38 PM by emmakate  
Click to view Martian's profile Old Hand 1,484 posts since
Sep 27, 2001
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Apr 23, 2008 8:36 AM

Excel 2004 “keyboard freeze”

I was having random “keyboard freezes” with Excel 2004. For no apparent reason, suddenly input from the keyboard and mouse buttons would be ignored until I would mouse over and click anywhere outside of an Excel window. Then I could click back into the spreadsheet and continue until another freeze.

The fix (so far, so good — I have my fingers crossed) was to uncheck the Excel Edit Preference item “Cut, copy, and sort objects with cells”.

I hope this helps someone else.

Can anyone explain this?
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Click to view Hurley42's profile Member 307 posts since
Aug 8, 2007
2. Apr 30, 2008 6:24 AM in response to: Martian
Re: Excel 2004 “keyboard freeze”
I am glad you mentioned your problem and solution. I have been having this problem all week, for the first time ever. It is a spreadsheet created by someone else, so I had assumed they put some weird macro in the sheet that was causing the problem. I'll know for sure if turning off the feature works later today.
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May 20, 2009
3. May 20, 2009 8:38 PM in response to: Martian
Re: Excel 2004 “keyboard freeze”
Thank you for your post!

Your fix stopped the very frustrating problem