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Tabs in Excel Online worksheet move unexpectedly
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!!!
So, I discovered something. This may have been fixed and you just don't know it.
I noticed that for one of my files the tabs were jumping everywhere, just as we are saying. I noticed I had a newer file where that behavior was NOT happening.
So I closed the document where it WAS happening and reopened it and now it's NOT happening.
So one of two things. Either it was fixed, but I wasn't seeing it (you aren't seeing it), because the file is perpetually open, 24 hours a day, so that "instance" of Excel is not current and fixed with whatever patch MS issued.
The other option is there is some sort of hotkey command that activates the move feature. And everyone on this thread (including myself of course), somehow magically stumbled upon that hotkey to activate the move feature.
I'm going to opt for scenario A, that the current workbook that's open just needs to be closed and reopened with the latest update/patch.