On some Dell laptops, you can use the Fn + S shortcut to toggle Scroll Lock on and off. Done :)Īs soon as you do this, Scroll Lock will disappear from the status bar and your arrows keys will move from cell to cell normally. If your keyboard has a key labeled as Scroll Lock or ScrLk key, just press it to turn Scroll Lock off. Disable scroll lock in Excel using the keyboard Much like Num Lock and Caps Lock, the Scroll Lock feature is a toggle, meaning it can be turned on and off by pressing the Scroll Lock key. How to turn off Scroll Lock in Excel for Windows

The Excel status bar only displays the Scroll Lock status, but does not control it. If a tick mark is not there, simply click the Scroll Lock to have its status appear on the status bar: To determine if it's the case, right click the status bar and see if there is a tick mark to the left of Scroll Lock. If your arrow keys scroll the whole sheet instead of moving to the next cell but the Excel status bar has no indication of Scroll Lock, most likely your status bar was customized not to display the Scroll Lock status. Among other useful things (such as page numbers average, sum and count of selected cells), the status bar shows if Scroll Lock is on: To see whether the Scroll Lock is turned on, just look at the status bar at the bottom of the Excel window. How to determine that Scroll Lock is enabled When the worksheet is scrolled, the current selection (a cell or range) does not change. However, when the Scroll Lock is enabled in Excel, arrow keys scroll the worksheet area: one row up and down or one column to the left or right.

Usually, when the Scroll Lock is disabled, arrow keys move you between individual cells in any direction: up, down, left or right. Scroll Lock is the feature that controls the behavior of the arrow keys in Excel.

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