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Mel Katanbaf
Nov 22, 2017Copper Contributor
Needless Feature Constantly Interferes with Data Entry While Using Excel
Just working on a simple Excel task....
Hello, I often have to correct data in excel and there is a feature in excel that is interfering with my work. I'm sure that other people that do any kin...
Mel Katanbaf
Nov 22, 2017Copper Contributor
I'm sure there could be another way to activate that feature without clicking on the border, given that accidently clicking on the border happens so often. It's very easy to accidently click on the border. How about making that feature available via a keyboard shortcut, or right click and then clicking on a menu item...
SergeiBaklan
Nov 22, 2017Diamond Contributor
It's available: Ctrl+Up, Ctrl+Down, etc. In Excel practically everything could be done by few several ways.
In general right place with suggestions to add/remove this or that feature is user voice https://excel.uservoice.com/
- Mel KatanbafNov 22, 2017Copper Contributor
Actually its "forbidden"
- SergeiBaklanNov 23, 2017Diamond Contributor
Very strange. Checked right now from the link in the post - works.
- dvgrnSep 29, 2021Copper ContributorBeing able to disable the double-click-on-border feature is a request that gathered many hundreds of votes on UserVoice, but never got any response at all from Microsoft. Many of the votes were very entertaining expressions of the inordinate amount of frustration that one feels when working on a huge spreadsheet, having found the cell you want to edit, double-clicking ... and ending up ten thousand cells away at the bottom of the sheet, with no way to jump back to where you came from and continue your work.
I'm looking for the most current Tech Community location where a similar aggregation of users' frustrations is happening about this issue, so that I can add my vote there. Does anyone have a pointer to something more recent than this discussion?
- Mel KatanbafNov 22, 2017Copper Contributor
Thanks. That page gave me a 404...