Escape key stopped working in Excel normally, I can hit the \'esc\' key when I\'

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Escape key stopped working in Excel

normally, I can hit the 'esc' key when I'm editing a cell and it cancels what's been typed in. now, it is not working for some reason.

for example, if I'm trying to get the teext "+" input into a cell but I forget to type ' first, Excel thinks I'm making a formula and activates the dashed outline to help me seelect a cell reference. Since this is not what I want, I hit escape, except now Excel does not respond to this key, remaining locked instead in formula search mode.

The only option I have changeed is 'disallow editing directly in cells' but I changed this option back and the behavior was the same.

Explanation / Answer

I had this problem, and searched an exorbitant number of forums before fiinding one that mentioneed this problem when running PTE and Photoshop CS4 (I'm running 64-bit on a brand new Windows 7 computer). I don't know what PTE is and I don't use iit, but as soon as I closed Photoshop, the problem completely went away.

My escape key is now working again, and I have lost the urge to throw my computer out the window. Hope this helps.

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