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OLSD237
Jun 29, 2023Copper Contributor
Excel Ctrl + Up Arrow and Ctrl + Down Arrow Not Working
I've looked through the other posts in the forum, but still cannot get this working in my Excel for some reason. Ctrl + left arrow or right arrow works, taking me to end of the horizontal data set, y...
- Jul 10, 2023So the answer here was to reinstall Microsoft office. Now it works again. Pretty frustrating and time consuming, but it's critical functionality I need for financial modeling.
Thanks all!
MrBear
Jun 03, 2026Occasional Reader
None of the above soft options worked. I didn’t try the repairs or reinstalls.
Trawling the options solved it. I UNCHECKED ‘Transition navigation keys’
File-Options-Advanced-Lotus compatibility-‘Transition navigation keys’ was checked.
Straight away shift+ctrl and up/down arrow works as expected.
copilot had me going down all sorts of options and resets to my Logitech mx keys but I old skool googled to find this thread and then thought I’d trawl the options. AI not taking over the world just yet! They’d get stuck the first time up/down arrows don’t work!!