You can enable and disable the Fill Handle feature in Excel settings. If you disable the Fill Handle feature, the white cursor will not change. This is what happens ...

If you want to change the selection direction after pressing the Enter button in the Excel spreadsheet, then this post will show you how to do it. Although it moves the selection to the bottom cell, ...

When I was using Excel 2003, I could easily adjust which direction the cursor would move—either to the right or down—after I entered data in a cell. But Office 2007 doesn’t seem to give me a choice.

A Visual Basic text box may be used to capture user input in Microsoft Excel. Typically, users type data into spreadsheet cells, but text boxes read data from dialog boxes that do not contain cells.