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Excel cursor not changing; fill handle not working
I have a new HP Elitebook laptop running Windows 10 pro with Office 365 that I downloaded last week. OS and Office are up to date.
I'm working on a huge analysis that I do every month and my cursor is acting really bizarre in Excel. The fill handle isn't working; when I click by the header of a column, the down arrow doesn't appear; I can't adjust column widths; it's very hard to select a whole row by clicking the numbers along the left side (keeps wanting to change row height unless I expand the row and then do it...)
Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? I'm super-frustrated!
I have checked the Options, Advanced, Editing Options, to ensure 'Enable fill handle and cell drag-and-drop' checkbox is selected. I have also made sure 'Formula - Calculation Options' is set to Automatic.
My mouse pointer still will not change to a 'move pointer'. Therefore, I am unable to use the Fill handle to copy a formula down a column.
I've checked that the spreadsheet is at 100%, so scaling shouldn't be an issue...
please help!!
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Although this did not make logical sense especially when the trackpad exhibited the same behavior, I power cycled the port replicator (aka docking station) and wonder of wonders this trick actually worked.
Thanks for the quick (and easy) solution.
Also, thanks for not posting a plethora of non-workable solutions.
rkoelker My first time using this forum, so not sure how to go about. I use excel on my desktop mostly amd the cursor keeps "disappearing". I see that many have "undocked" thier laptops and fixed the problem. However, I have had to close out and reenter my workbooks frequently in order to regenrate the cursor. Obviously, this is not normal and very frustrating. How can I keep the cursor "active"?
Thank you
If undocking and redocking resolves the issue, it would most likely be a driver issue with the dock.
For your particular problem, have you tried a repair on Excel from within the APPS?
Also, check this link:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/excel-office-365-cursor-disappears-and-cannot/f427b96b-741e-4324-b2b2-e61e0f6b23db
Good Luck
holy crap. this was happening to me. for an hour i couldn't figure it out till i read your response and it came back to normal. TY SO MUCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 🤩
- This solution worked perfectly - thank you!!
