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Excel: Why does double-clicking in a cell jump to a different cell?

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Mar 15, 202622501 views
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Normally, when you double-click a cell, you enter in-cell editing mode, right? This works most of the time, but occasionally on random cells, a double-click instead moves the focus to a different cell in the sheet, as if I had simply single-clicked that other cell. If I then double-click the origin…

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Fix for: Excel: Why does double-clicking in a cell jump to a different cell?

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If you double click on (or really near) the border of the cell, the selected cell jumps to the first empty cell to the left in the same row (if it was a side border) or up in the same column (if it was a top/bottom border). It seems to be more relia…

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