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Tabs in Excel Online worksheet move unexpectedly
ThomasVarshal
I have spotted this too, you can also click on the relevant tab slightly longer to select it.
But neither of these options is a "solution" per se.
Surely the default behaviour when you click on a tab should be that it activates that tab for viewing, as is the case in the offline version.
Why on earth would MS make this change?? It's counter-intuitive
Yes, I think this works. Not a double-click. But a "good-bye" click when you are leaving a tab to go to another. If you double-click (two clicks in quick succession) that brings up the rename screen. So, one click to view a sheet. Another, separate click later to leave that sheet. Think of the second click as either driving a nail into it to hold it down or as saying good-bye to it so it doesn't follow you.
It's funny that this only became a problem for me yesterday, after using Excel online for 3 months in a multi-page worksheet. Until yesterday, pages stayed where I put them without having to click a second time to nail them down or say good-bye. Then yesterday -- same workbook, same computer, same ISP, same browser, same me, using it all in the same way -- they started moving all over the place unexpectedly.
Thanks for the workaround.
I have gone back to Microsoft chat support and this time insisted that they escalate the problem, successfully fending off their blaming of the browser, the ISP, etc. and resisting their suggestions that I switch to the desktop version. They gave me a case number and promised higher level technicians would try to come up with a fix.
- realvadimApr 10, 2020Copper Contributor
The bug is gone (for me at least). Looks like MS solved the issue.
- jmd509Apr 10, 2020Copper Contributor
realvadim My tabs are still moving around ... my team (about 36 people) just aren't going to reliably disciplined to carefully click in and click out exactly the right way to prevent movement. Sigh.
- CScott20Apr 11, 2020Copper ContributorI think it was a bug and the fixes are being rolled out. Seems a lot of us are seeing them no more.