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Excel editing Conditional Formating rules cursor issue
I've started encountering this issue a few months ago. It is extremely disruptive, as I work with Named Ranges a lot. I encounter it on multiple machines using the same Office 365 license. My work colleagues suffer from it as well.
I've found that I can sometimes right it by jumping between worksheets and doing... something - but I haven't quite figured out what it is yet.
EDIT: OK, I think I've figured out what's causing it: it happens when I scroll my sheet horizontally away from the leftmost position. Once I scroll to the beginning of the sheet, the cursor gets placed in the clicked position inside popup formula boxes correctly.
- EddieGR0Apr 08, 2026Copper Contributor
Brilliant. This should be better-known, I have had this problem for years!
- Andrew_GoodchildJul 17, 2025Copper Contributor
You star, this has been bugging me for ages, your solution worked perfectly.