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arrow keys stopped working in excel

The arrow keys on the keyboard that came with my new iMac have suddenly stopped working in Excel for moving between cells. They will only scroll the page up and down and left to right. Surely I have just inadvertently changed some setting. But, I have no idea how to change it back because I have no idea what I may have changed! Help!

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), flat silver keyboard with white key

Posted on Aug 5, 2011 4:57 PM

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Posted on Aug 5, 2011 7:33 PM

Do you have the scroll lock on? click command+F14

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Feb 15, 2012 1:03 AM in response to Eric Ross

thank you for posting this! i have an imac and was able to use command F14 to get the arrow keys on Excel working again. I was getting so frustrated that the arrow keys had been stuck on moving the entire page. I asked at an Apple store in a personal one to one session but no one there knew, so your post was a life saver!!!

Sep 6, 2012 12:11 PM in response to Eric Ross

Eric!!!! I thought all this time that nobody answered my question. And there it was, all the way back in October of 2011. I guess I thought someone would knock on my door and tell me my question had been answered.


Thinking all was for naught, I plugged in my PC keyboard and fixed the problem and then unplugged it.


Anyway, the keystrokes you suggested work wonderfully AND I am awestruck by the link you suggested. I want you to know, I googled the problem and read everything I found and not one person ever mentioned the Mac keystrokes for accomplishing "F-14".


You are the King. Actually, if you can answer the question I just posted in Airport Express, I'll be your personal slave. (It's called, "Murder on the Airport Express....")


My Airport Express doesn't extend my Wireless Network.

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