Excel 2007 help please

[wishblade]

Hmmm, me thinks its probably a case of something like the extra functions that are stickied on. Try pressing the Fn key on the keyboard, or "enabling" the Fn mode (I have no idea how to do this, so you may need to refer to your user guide).

I don't see why it shouldn't work after that.

 

[Picard]

Something like this often happens with the keyboards in my class. The kids press the buttons too hard and then it becomes all borked. From the grime and dirt from their grubby little fingers ... you can imagine what's happening.

Sometimes they activate the sticky-keys, but i'm not talking about that.

I just tap the shift/ctrl/alt buttons multiple times to "shake it loose" and then everything is fine again.

 

[wishblade]

Could happen with the dirt and what not.

Although in this case, there is a distinct character that is typed when the Ctrl key is held and a letter is pressed. Which means that either the Ctrl key is a bit on the bjorked side, or that the Fn key or Num Lock is active (since this is a laptop and all), and the extra functions are being used. Which happens quite often on the one small field laptop by us - the guys often press the Num Lock key by mistake, which toggles on number functions instead of letters. So then when they press the 'p' key for example, they get a '*' as the 'p' key also functions as the multiply key that would appear on the num-pad of a full sized keyboard. And then on another of our site laptops, the same functionality is enabled by pressing the Fn key...