Someday I will look for (learn how to use) a better calculator. In the meantime, I get by by using Google spreadsheets. My latest difficulty / annoyance was that I couldn't use the cursors keys inside of a cell. I write a formula, and the first time I write it it is usually wrong, so I want to correct it, which means moving the cursor to the place where I need to delete a number of insert a paranthese, but it doesn't work. I press the left arrow key and it inserts some cell address. "I don't want that" I scream at the stupid machine but it doesn't care, shoot, it doesn't even acknowledge me. Uppity gizmo. So I pull up the help page and I explain my problem (which is where I got the title for this post), and low and behold, I found an answer. I am shocked.
<< IF the LEFT ARROW KEY etc >>
Without
saying what is the right or wrong way of doing things, the behaviour
you have described is pretty much exactly the same as other spreadsheet
applications (including the old version of GSheets, along with by far
the most popular desktop one). In other words, there are two distinct
"modes" of editing in-cell:
1. When you type a
new entry in a cell, the arrow keys will not move the cursor within the
cell, but rather move to a new cell. However, if you reposition the
cursor with the mouse within the cell, you will then be able to move the
cursor with the left & right arrow keys.
2.
When you go back to the cell in edit mode (not even considering the
formula bar), w\you again by default will be able to move the cursor
with the left & right arrow keys.
By
A.P.L. on the Google Help Forum
A.P.L. on the Google Help Forum
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