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Help me out Excel aficionados, Google has failed me with this one ...

To select a number of non-contiguous rows in Excel I hold down Ctrl when I click on the row headers. However if I want to unselect a row then holding down Ctrl and clicking on the header again has no effect.

Q1. Is there a way to unselect a row in this way?

In Excel 2013 when I attempt to deselect a row with Ctrl held down, the row remains selected but goes a little bit darker, and increasingly so if I click on it again. This can leave somebody like me with multiple rows selected, but the appearance that some rows are more selected than others.

Q2. What is happening here?

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Answer 1

Ans 1. The answer to your 1st question is simple. Unfortunately you cant. Out of the box Excel doesn't support deselection via clicking for a second time. (Surprising how M'Soft didn't think about this)

You have some external 3rd party plugins (Kutools for example) which does allow you to achieve it.

A workaround is writing a VBA script for the same, however that is kind of going over the edge.

Ans 2. Well I don't have excel 2013 so I can't help you with that one unfortunately. In 2010 it seemed to work pretty normal.