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Excel cursor not changing; fill handle not working
donna140 Hi Donna. I was having the same issue, and oddly enough disconnecting my docking station from its power supply and re-plugging it back in fixed it for me. If you are using a docking station I would recommend trying that.
- This solution worked perfectly - thank you!!
Smartin92 This worked for me. Plugging and unplugging the dock, I was able to duplicate the problem. Once I power cycled the docking station, everything restored to normal.
Just adding this in case it helps others.
- I was going crazy with a misbehaving cursor today. This trick worked like magic!!!
Smartin92 many thanks for this solution! It's one of those things that only happened at one of my 3 work locations/stations, and I never noticed it at the other 2. So when it started happening again here I thought I was losing it. The effects are subtle enough to be frustrating but not completely stop you from working. Oh the small things that enable us to do great things that we don't appreciate!
Smartin92 Ok, I thought it was crazy to just detach my keyboard from my surface tablet. I tried a hundred ways to get my curser back. Your simple trick worked. Thank You
I am so impressed and thankful I had to comment. I too work with large spreadsheets, i dropped my mouse and although not broken was having the same issues that were really starting to impact my work. I had previously tried everything restarting, reloading drivers etc. I kept searching for answers then came across this post fixed! Many thanks
- I just wanted to thank you for this! I have spent far-too-long trying to work out how to fix the exact same problem. So, following you advice, I unplugged everything from everything and then plugged it all back in! Et voilà: the problem is fixed!!!! You have saved me a LOT of time! 🙂
