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Cursor misalignment - Excel on Mac

Anonymous
2019-04-29T09:37:24+00:00

Hi,

I´ve seen several older post regarding mac users having trouble with the mouse cursor being misaligned in Excel - so that the mouse cursor marks one cell above where you point it etc.

As it looks in the other posts I´ve been reading, this problem was solved in updated Excel versions, but I got this problem recently, after buying a Office licence for my Macbook in February 2019.

Is there any way to solve this on recent versions? Normally, restarting the program solves the problem for some time, before it suddenly comes back.

I´m running Excel version 16.23 on a 2016 Macbook (OS Mojave). The product I purchased was called "Office Home & Student 2019".

Hope someone can help, as this is quite annoying!

Regards,

Ingunn

Microsoft 365 and Office | Excel | For home | Windows

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-07-30T12:41:51+00:00

    I have the same problem.  It is worse with an apple mouse than a normal mouse.  I find that moving to different sheet temporarily suspends the problem, but not for long.  It is very annoying.

    Alex

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-08-19T21:21:34+00:00

    I also have the same problem. It's extremely frustrating and happens all the time. When I click, often a cell ABOVE the cell I'm pointing at becomes selected. I'm on Excel for Mac 16.27...

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  3. Jim G 133.9K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2019-08-20T17:55:41+00:00

    Try in 16.28.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-08-24T19:18:40+00:00

    I'm using 16.28 Excel for Mac with Mojave OS.  I have the same problem, constantly select a cell to edit and it actually edits the one below.

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  5. Jim G 133.9K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2019-08-25T12:43:07+00:00

    One known cause of the problem is having MagicPrefs running on your Mac. Do you have MagicPrefs?

    Real answer to when-clicking-on-a-cell-different-cell-is-selected

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