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Cursor direction in text box reversed

Resolved · Medium Priority · Version 2007

Reply Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:02Delegate jeff said...

jeff has attended:
Excel VBA Intro Intermediate course

Cursor direction in text box reversed

When working in Excel 2007 with a spreadsheet that was created in Excel 2003 the existing and newly created (in Excel 2007) text boxes have the left/right polarity of the cursor inverted i.e. pressing the right arrow key moves the cursor left and the left arrow moves it right.

Is a fix for this known?

Thanks

Jeff

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Reply Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:49Trainer Amanda said...

RE: Cursor direction in text box reversed

Hello Jeff

Thank you for your question.

From hunting around on the internet, it seems that others have experienced the same problem. One web site I came across seemed to suggest that this problem would be resolved by downloading Service Pack 1 for Office 2007.

Service Pack 1 can be downloaded from the following web page:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9EC51594-992C-4165-A997-25DA01F388F5&displaylang=en

Kind regards
Amanda

Reply Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:39Delegate jeff said...

RE: Cursor direction in text box reversed

Hi Amanda,

Thanks for the infomation and the link, I have Office Excel 2007 (12.0.6425.1000) SP2 MSO (12.0.6425.1000) do you still think that the SP1 update will fix the bug? I am downloading the SP1 update now.

Jeff

Reply Tue 27 Oct 2009, 17:31Trainer Amanda said...

RE: Cursor direction in text box reversed

Hi Jeff

I don't know - I guess we'll find out once you've finished downloading the service pack :)

Amanda

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