Excel How to disable Row and Column shading

Question

I hit several wrong keys typing in Excel this morning and ended up with Row and Column shading for the selected cell. I've been unable to find anything that tells me how to clear this. It now happens on all of my files and restarting Excel or restarting Windows did not clear it. It's not a conditional rule or VBA as far as I can tell. It's quite irritating for most of my spreadsheets. Help?

Windows 10, Microsoft 365, Excel Version 2411.

Answer 1

Dear respected EarlS155,

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As per your description, I think you mistakenly, turn on " Focus Cell" feature. Cand you please try in Excel file>click on View tab>select Focus Cell button to toggle off.

That's a new Insiders feature called 'Focus Cell' described in the blog post in the link below: Increase ease of navigation with Focus Cell in Excel

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Answer 2

I hit several wrong keys typing in Excel this morning and ended up with Row and Column shading for the selected cell. I've been unable to find anything that tells me how to clear this. It now happens on all of my files and restarting Excel or restarting Windows did not clear it. It's not a conditional rule or VBA as far as I can tell. It's quite irritating for most of my spreadsheets. Help?

Windows 10, Microsoft 365, Excel Version 2411.

You've got a macro that's causing that to occur; delete that and your problem's solved.

Answer 3

Nope, no macros show up.

Answer 4

Thanks so much. All gone!

Answer 5

Thank you so much for your helpful hint.
I likely hit a wrong key combination and could not get rid of this permanent highlighting.
This was driving me crazy.