Scroll Lock

Problem

scroll lock SCRL-
when they use up, down, left or right arrow, the whole worksheet moves instead of the active cell

Diagnosis

check the status bar on the bottom of the screen- does it say SCRL?
If so, they're in scroll lock mode.

Solution

Hit F14 (scroll lock) to remove it.
If they don't have an extended keyboard, they'll have to throw out Excel Prefs file from the System folder. Technically, they should never get into SCRL mode if they don't have extended keyboard, but sometimes it seems to happen.

This is an Excel "feature" that occasionally causes big problems for users of MacNail construction software. Of course they usually think we did it.

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Entered 10/1/97 by Randy. Updated 11/13/2010.