Comments on: Move After Selection

By: Matt Vidas

Matt Vidas — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:01:00 +0000

Amy,

Were you originally in B5 and hit Tab twice to get to D5 before hitting Enter? That is the way Excel works, which can be quite helpful if you're entering records of multiple fields each. Otherwise you'll have to reset that 'feature' by using an arrow key (either use the right arrow to get to D initially, or just hit the down arrow from D if you used the tab before it).

Matt

By: Amy Gatten

Amy Gatten — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:17:00 +0000

Hello -
Hoping for some help: Excel 2003 is defaulting movement after Enter to the next line down (normal for me), but several columns to the right, as if it's intuiting the table of data.

I have Tools-Options-Move selection after Enter checked for Down, but I'm getting movement from D5 to B6 instead of from D5 to D6 (for example).

Any ideas would be very much appreciated!
Thank you!

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:59:00 +0000

I have one to toggle Word Wrap.

By: mschaef

mschaef — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:38:00 +0000

I wrote up refinement two on my website, linked above. VBA made it pretty easy….

By: mschaef

mschaef — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:38:00 +0000

One suggestion: have your macro dump out the current state to the status bar when it runs. That way you can more easily tell what mode you just entered.

Refinement two (more difficult): Have the macro set up such that the first time you press it, it displays the current state. The second time you execute it within half a second or so, it toggles the state.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:57:00 +0000

I always keep Move Selection off. If I want to move down (or right) after each entry, I click the arrow key instead of Enter. It's worked for over a decade.

My procedure I run to fix calc, screen updating, enable events, cursor, etc., is called "oops", so it's easy to find.

By: jkpieterse

jkpieterse — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:24:00 +0000

And of course:

Sub restore()
Dim obar As CommandBar
For Each obar In Application.CommandBars
obar.Enabled = True
Next
End Sub

By: Harald Staff

Harald Staff — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:51:00 +0000

Public Sub ResetExcel()
On Error Resume Next
Application.EnableEvents = True
Application.StatusBar = False
Application.Calculation = xlAutomatic
Application.Cursor = xlDefault
Application.ReferenceStyle = xlA1
ActiveSheet.EnableSelection = xlNoRestrictions
ActiveSheet.ClearArrows
ActiveSheet.DisplayAutomaticPageBreaks = False
End Sub

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:20:00 +0000

"I toggle A1-R1C1?

Really? I've never used R1C1.

"Another one is "Reset Excel""

Ooh, that's a good idea. I've been doing it in the Immediate Window - but no more.

By: Harald Staff

Harald Staff — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:08:00 +0000

There are Tools - Options settings that should just be there at a click or, at the most, two. But which ones is probably a question of style and habits. I toggle A1-R1C1 countless times every day, so that's my most frequently used personal macro.

Another one is "Reset Excel", code setting calculation to automatic, enable selection all, enable events true, application statusbar false and all those other little things that my new and crashed code intended to reset at the end if I'd written it right from the beginning.