Office XP Excel problem

[Greg]

On my Windows 2000 machine, for some reason recently if I open Excel 2002 and
try to click anywhere on the spreadsheet, it will highlight a cell. Then I
move the mouse and it keeps dragging an area to select. The problem is I
click it another 10,000 times and it won't stop selecting cells. I have no
clue why this mouse isn't working correctly. It works just fine everywhere
else and in every other program, but for some reason in Excel it suddenly
found an error or something in the software and it seems to like it.

I have changed the keyboard and mouse, tried detect and repair and still
nothing fixes it. The only way to exit the program is go into task manager
and highlight Excel and choose End Task.

Any ideas?

 

[RWN]

Try hitting "F8" if you have "EXT" showing on the bottom bar.
EXT is Extend Selection.

 

[Croweater49]

I have exactly the same frustrating problem and have tried F8. Greg, did you
find a solution?
Andrew