Resolved Office Excel 2008: Strange cursor behaviour

My boss (at the other end of the country) is working on a Mac, using Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. I'm working on a PC with XP Home SP3. We can usually share files with no apparent problems. We're working in Excel (I'm using Excel 2007).

He has called me and says after cleaning his keyboard, the arrow keys no longer take him to the expected cell in Excel (next left, next right, next above, next below), but instead leave the insert point fixed in the same cell and scroll the whole worksheet (left, right, up and down) around it. He has no idea which key combination he must have pressed during cleaning to trigger this behaviour. I've been through all the Office helpscreens searching on keywords like "arrow" and "scroll" (and even "reset" to reset factory default options), but can't find any reference to this issue.

Can anyone tell me how this option can presumably be toggled back to the "normal" function of the arrow keys? Or should I be posting in another forum?

 

Hi Pete, and thanks. I am deeply embarrassed not to have found this myself! On checking, I discovered it wasn't doing this for me because I was experimenting in an empty worksheet, but once I tried it on a real one, I immediately reproduced the effect. Still, I learned a heck of a lot of new things working through those help screens...

Thanks again and good day.

 

Yep, that was it! You'd've enjoyed watching us Skyping about this, holding our respective keyboards up to the webcam and pointing... but it worked.