Can't switch between worksheet tabs

**mas** · 10-04-2010, 10:31 AM

Hi

I have a pretty huge spreadsheet with +25 worksheets tabs. My problem is that sometimes I can not switch between them when clicking on the tabs. When I click the tabs either nothing happens or I get a standard windows right click menu even though i left click (like this one, but don't mind that this it taken from the windowns menu bar, it is the same right click menu i get \1. )
I am aware that I am able to switch between the worksheet tabs by holding ctrl and pressing PgUp or PgDn however with 25 or more sheets clicking is much much easier.

I thought that another program could be blocking the tabs somehow, so I to a screenshot of all running processes. \1
Can anybody help me with this annoying problem?

**mas** · 10-11-2010, 05:42 AM

Can't anyone please help me or at least point me in the direction of where i can get any help?

Thank you and have a nice day

**royUK** · 10-11-2010, 06:11 AM

We might be better able to help with an example workbook not pictures

**romperstomper** · 10-11-2010, 06:33 AM

I suspect either a hardware issue with the mouse, or a software (non-Excel) bug.

**romperstomper** · 10-11-2010, 06:33 AM

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**mas** · 10-13-2010, 07:32 AM

@romperstomper: Sorry for not following rule 8, I honestly did not read the rules.. sorry.
However my little forum-crime here helped me solve my problem.

It seemed HP Wireless Assistant was causing the problem. What you need to do is to install the HotFix from HP called “HP Wireless Assistant - 3.50.11.2 (15 IV 2010) - sp48392.exe (3.8 MB)”.

HP says that the the hotfix..:
“Fixes an issue, which occurs when using Microsoft Excel on a notebook that
is running a 32-bit version of the Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Operating
System, where a pop-up menu is displayed when the Sheet1 tab at the bottom of
the screen is clicked (instead of the tab contents being displayed). The
displayed pop-up menu is the same as the menu you would see if you
right-clicked the window's title bar.”

I have not have seen the problem after installing the hotfix and can therefore with great pleasure announce that the problem has been SOLVED

A great day to you all

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