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Copper Contributor

Mar 15, 2019

Tabs in Excel Online worksheet move unexpectedly

We use a shared Excel Online worksheet that is concurrently accessed by approx. 50 users. The tabs are all named by date and we keep about 3 months of dates available at any time. Periodically, the...

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ThomasVarshal

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Apr 08, 2020

awilcoxThis is the solution! If you click on a tab just one time and then move your mouse pointer to another tab, you'll see a small "move" arrow. Wherever you click, it will move your tab to this location. If you don't want your tab to move, you must click your original tab one more time. Now, when you move your mouse pointer to another tab, you'll see that there is no "move" arrow this time. Thanks!

JSMCA

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Apr 15, 2020

ThomasVarshalOh my goodness, you are absolutely correct!!! AND, this is absurd default behavior!

Yes, so when you click a tab, it auto activates the "move" arrow. Clicking the tab again deactivates the move arrow.

It should be the EXACT OPPOPSITE. Clicking once should do nothing more than select the tab, period, end of action. If I want to move it I can manually drag it, or Microsoft could make it optional that if a tab is clicked a second time, THEN it activates the move arrow.

Thank you for discovering this!!!