Highlighting a range

[WTL]

I have Excel 2000, v9.0.2720. I recently cleaned up my hard drive and defrag d. Since then (coinsidence?), whenever I attempt to highlight a range by depressing the shift key, and using the arrows, there is an immediate message that this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shutdown . However, I can highlight by clicking the mouse and dragging. What can I do to fix this problem? Thanks -- WTL

[Anne Troy]

Hey there, WTL!! Glad to see you made it!

Here goes and now you ll understand why I didn t want to have you writing this down over the phone:

Close Excel.

Hit Start-Run and type regedit and hit enter.
Browse to:

hkey_current_usersoftwaremicrosoftoffice9.0excel

Right-click and rename the excel folder to OldExcel and hit Enter.
Re-launch Excel.

Lemme know how it goes!

~Dreamboat
TheWordExpert

[WTL]

Dreamboat:
Thanks for the quick response, but unfortunately there is no change -- get the same message followed by a shutown of the program.......... WTL

[Anne Troy]

Okay. Have you tried Detect and Repair under the Help menu right in Excel?


~Dreamboat
TheWordExpert

Edited by - Dreamboat on May 09 2002 21:24:17

[RoverM]

This kind of error can only be solved by a reinstallation of Excel (AFAIK).


D Mzzl!
RoverM