Scroll Lock in Excel

Subscriber Leah B. asks "In Excel I can't use the arrow keys to move to adjacent cells.  Instead it moves the whole scroll bar over or up and down. Any ideas?"

Excel has a feature called Scroll Lock which lets you use the arrow keys to scroll in your spreadsheet.  I've never found much use for it myself and haven't run across many people that do.  Of course, if you don't know about Scroll Lock and accidentally turn it on, then it can be way too exciting!

You have a Scroll Lock key on your keyboard, likely towards the top right.  It may be labelled Scroll Lk or ScrLk.  It's a toggle key like Caps Lock so if Scroll Lock is on press the key once to turn it off.

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