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midnightodyssey
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Jun 05, 2024

Keyboard shortcut to collapse formula bar not working

About a week ago the regular keyboard shortcut that I use to collapse and expand the formula bar in Excel (Ctrl+Shift+U) stopped working, and instead increased the worksheet zoom by 5%.   Would any...
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    SergeiBaklan
    Jun 10, 2024

    midnightodyssey 

    If shortcut works in Excel safe mode (not Windows safe mode) that most probably means that one of add-ins uses same shortcut and blocks it for Excel.

    Try to run Excel in normal mode, disable add-ins one by one and each time check if the shortcut works. With that you localize the add-in which prevents using shortcut.

    After that disable using of that shortcut for add-in, if that's possible. If not, when to choose, use add-in but have no shortcut in Excel, or opposite.

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midnightodyssey
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I'm using Windows, version 2311. The issue seems to fix itself when starting in safe mode, however I am not able to load specific add-ins that I need in safe mode
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SergeiBaklan
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Jun 10, 2024

midnightodyssey 

If shortcut works in Excel safe mode (not Windows safe mode) that most probably means that one of add-ins uses same shortcut and blocks it for Excel.

Try to run Excel in normal mode, disable add-ins one by one and each time check if the shortcut works. With that you localize the add-in which prevents using shortcut.

After that disable using of that shortcut for add-in, if that's possible. If not, when to choose, use add-in but have no shortcut in Excel, or opposite.

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