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Excel will not let me click into cells or incorrect cell is selected randomly
I was having issues that seem to match yours. After pulling out many hairs, I stumbled on something that seems to have fixed it for me (or at least made it less frequent. I "fixed" it a while ago and haven't seen the problem since.)
I'm using Win 11 on a Dell laptop with a touchpad. Not sure if any of that is important.
I find that I frequently use the touchpad "scroll wheel" function (sliding two fingers) to scroll the worksheet. And this seemed to lead to the problem. I also use the same method to scroll in some other program that loaded at the same time--switch back and forth between the two. And often I just hover over the other program to scroll without actually activating the other program.
I thought this last behavior might be to blame, so I went to Windows Settings/mouse to turn off the "Scroll inactive windows when hovering over them" setting.
To my surprise, it was already set to "Off". Yet I was using the feature! It would do what I wanted it to do. Something was wrong somewhere. So I tried turning the Settings feature "On".
Since then, I've had no issues with Excel showing the wrong active cell / not letting me edit the cell I want.
I hope this helps you. I know how frustrating this issue is!