Selecting MultipleCells on Microsoft Excel using an External Touch Screen Monitor

I recently attached an external touch screen monitor to my laptop and initially I was struggling to select and highlight multiple cells on Excel

Randomly the cells started appearing with a circle on each edge making it easier to highlight more cells up, down, left and right

Now again randomly its changed again without me changing any settings at all and I can no longer highlight multiple cells using the touch screen monitor

The only workaround is to use the select objects function but this does not always work nicely to highlight the cells

Any ideas as to how to get the circles back again on a selected cell to make it easier to highlight multiple cells?

This is how it looks now but havent got a picture of how it used to be when it worked well

UPDATE:

Randomly it has changed back to the previous settings without me knowingly changing anything

Not sure what causes the changes but I prefer it like this as it makes selecting multiple cells easier