[Macpartners] Fwd: Excel issue with 15.22

[Steven M Burke]

Dear IT Partners and MacPartners

A bit of warning re: installing the 15.22 Office 2016 update and Excel.

If you have changed the Excel\Preferences\Edit and TURNED OFF “Edit directly in cell”…

It seems that now you can’t immediately click in a cell and start typing as Excel doesn’t accept the first number of character you type. You have to type the first number or letter to “open” the cell, then type it again for it to actually record your keystroke.

This doesn’t happen if you have the “Edit directly in Cell” checked.  However, that’s not my preference.

I hope MS fixes the annoying behavior.

This wasn’t happening until the 15.22 update was applied.


-Steve

p.s.  Thank Paul for finding this comment.


https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304933-excel-for-mac


Begin forwarded message:

From: Paul M Schumacher <memory68 at mit.edu<mailto:memory68 at mit.edu>>
Subject: Excel issue
Date: May 31, 2016 at 11:28:46 AM EDT
To: Steven M Burke <sburke at mit.edu<mailto:sburke at mit.edu>>

Steve, I have found this while digging around.


https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304933-excel-for-mac
Revert the ungodly change to make the first key press open a cell instead of type into it

Why did Excel 15.22 change to make the first key press open a cell instead of immediately typing into it? That hasn’t changed that since the 90s and is makes Excel incredibly frustrating to use.

This behavior ONLY occurs on the Mac version and NOT the Windows version.

Looks like they made some weird change that affected only the Mac side of things with the patch.



Paul Schumacher
IT Consultant III
DUE Desktop Support
(617) 253 9817
memory68 at mit.edu<mailto:memory68 at mit.edu>






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