I have spent a considerable amount of time figuring out this issue.Īfter so many days, I came to know that the problem is not with the arrow keys but with the SCROLL LOCK option on the keyboard. I have noticed all the other keys are working except the arrow keys. In fact, I have restarted my computer to figure out what’s wrong with my keyboard arrow keys. You must be thinking what the hell scroll lock is? If the scroll lock is switched on by accidentally, then you must have spent so many minutes to figure out why your arrow keys are not functioning to move easily in the worksheet. In this article, I will show you how to deal with such scenarios in excel. This is usually because of excel Scroll Lock in the key on your keyboard. I hope you have experienced these arrow keys that don’t move at all sometimes. In excel, in order to move fast from one cell to another, select a range of cells, go to the end of the last used cell in the worksheet, and many other things require keyboards arrow keys. Scroll lock in excel occurs when we press the scroll lock button in our keyboard or from the virtual keyboard, normally when we press the down arrow key from any cells it takes us to the next cell below it but when we have scroll lock on it drags the worksheet down while the cursor remains on the same cell, to disable scroll lock we can turn it off from the keyboard or from the virtual keyboard.
