Mouse not working right - No Drag and Drop, no Row Highlighting

[marijkevn]

I did multiple online searches and could not find a solution. Hopefully someone here can help me. I work on Excel spreadsheets all day long. At the end of the day, I sent a spreadsheet to my home laptop to work on in the evening. The drag and drop would not work. I checked the settings; and it is enabled, so that was not the issue. Then I attempted to highlight a group of rows (to hide them). When I clicked (left) on the row margin and tried to move the mouse down to highlight the next four rows, all that happened was the row got taller. I cannot even highlight one row, if I hold my finger on the left mouse button it will flash the row, but won't highlight.

I attempted a reboot. hitting escape. moving the USB to a different port. Nothing works. And the excel was working fine a few days ago. Not sure what I did, I could really use your help.

 

[rollis13]

Maybe: check the Property of the file on your USB, if you find that it is Blocked (box at the bottom) by Security, unBlock it.

 

[marijkevn]

Not sure how to check the property of my USB, I'll take a look for future reference. However, when I booted up this morning, the mouse was working again normally on my spreadsheet. Thank you for your quick response to my question!

 

[rollis13]

Maybe you had just installed some automatic Windows updates.
For Property of a file all you have to do is right-click the file and select.

 

[marijkevn]

Yes, I know that much. Just how to find the file. I suppose I could just search for Logitech. Thank you again.

 

[marijkevn]

okay, mouse is back acting weird. Properties doesn't have a security tab. Couldn't find anything blocked. Driving me nuts.

 

[Peter_SSs]

Try a different mouse?

Does it act this way in all Excel files or just the one you sent from work to home?

 

[marijkevn]

Any Excel file on my new laptop. Never happened on my old desktop. I've had the new ASUS for about 2-3 weeks. This problem just started on Friday. Fixed itself Saturday. Then was back not working yesterday. I'm about to open a file and see for today.

 

[marijkevn]

working properly, for now...

 

[marijkevn]

left the room for a few minutes, came back and mouse is back to acting weird. I have to use the keyboard for most functions I'd usually use the mouse for.