Unable to deselect in excel

Yesterday when I selected multiple cells in a Microsoft Excel 2016 worksheet, I could hold CTRL key and deselect the cells I wanted removed. But for some reason TODAY when I hold down Ctrl and then cl...

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Olaf Hubel

Former Employee

Mar 07, 2019

Sorry for all the confusion around this.

The Deselect feature is an Office 365 (Home, Business, ….) and Office 2019 feature.

This means it does not work in Office 2016. We had a bug where it was turned on for a very short time by mistake in Office 2016. We have fixed this bug, this happend at the same time we also had to disable the feature for a month in Office 365. After we fixed all open issues we turned it back on for Office 365.

The deselect feature never existed in Office 2016 (or any other older version). We created this feature in late 2017.

I hope this answers your question.

Olaf