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 ...

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.

The Format Painter in Excel lets you copy formatting from one cell or group of cells to another cell or group of cells without copying their contents. Cell formatting includes everything from font ...

It may be needed that you want to type multiple lines of text a particular cell. The main concern lies in the fact that under Excel when you press the Enter Key, the cursor will move to the next cell.