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How to tell Excel not to hide selection when it becomes inactive?

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Mar 15, 20261084 views
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Excel has an annoying habit of making the current selection invisible when it becomes inactive - including the "focused cell" rectangle. When I try to process a spreadsheet in a certain way I may put it on a secondary monitor and highlight the stuff I'm working with, but the moment I switch to anot…

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I have been annoyed by this for years. I've never found a solution within Excel. Is it an option to open your spreadsheet (at least for reading, if not editing) in OpenOffice.org Calc? It doesn't suffer the same problem.

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