Lynn
New Member
This is an issue I've been having ever since using Excel 2013. I was hoping that it would be fixed in Windows 10, but it hasn't.
I frequently work with multiple files open, most of them minimized. (All of my files are fairly large, complex files with multiple worksheets in them.) When posting figures into one spreadsheet and moving around it using the arrow keys, it will often freeze up. Nothing I enter shows up, and the arrows don't work to move the cursor around. I stumbled on a solution: if I hit "Enter", one of the minimized files will pop up, and I just have to minimize it again to free up the file I'm working in.
When I have a ton of work to do, however, it gets really annoying to have to keep minimizing that other file! And since I'm going back and forth between these files all the time I don't want to close the minimized file(s).
I haven't been able to figure out any pattern that makes the Excel file freeze up. There's no predicting when it will happen, but it will be working fine for a while and then start that freezing up all the time. Frequent saving doesn't seem to make a bit of difference. When I mentioned this to someone at Microsoft while seeking an answer to another question, he was intrigued and said he'd never heard of this happening.
Is it happening to anybody else? Is there any way to stop it? I'm not posting sample files, because this isn't something that shows up on the file itself; it's something the software is doing. I'm really hoping that somebody else has seen this and knows how to stop it!
I frequently work with multiple files open, most of them minimized. (All of my files are fairly large, complex files with multiple worksheets in them.) When posting figures into one spreadsheet and moving around it using the arrow keys, it will often freeze up. Nothing I enter shows up, and the arrows don't work to move the cursor around. I stumbled on a solution: if I hit "Enter", one of the minimized files will pop up, and I just have to minimize it again to free up the file I'm working in.
When I have a ton of work to do, however, it gets really annoying to have to keep minimizing that other file! And since I'm going back and forth between these files all the time I don't want to close the minimized file(s).
I haven't been able to figure out any pattern that makes the Excel file freeze up. There's no predicting when it will happen, but it will be working fine for a while and then start that freezing up all the time. Frequent saving doesn't seem to make a bit of difference. When I mentioned this to someone at Microsoft while seeking an answer to another question, he was intrigued and said he'd never heard of this happening.
Is it happening to anybody else? Is there any way to stop it? I'm not posting sample files, because this isn't something that shows up on the file itself; it's something the software is doing. I'm really hoping that somebody else has seen this and knows how to stop it!