Arrow keys stopped working in excel

The arrow keys on the keyboard that came with my new iMac have suddenly stopped working in Excel for moving between cells. They will only scroll the page up and down and left to right. Surely I have just inadvertently changed some setting. But, I have no idea how to change it back because I have no idea what I may have changed! Help!

Eric!!!! I thought all this time that nobody answered my question. And there it was, all the way back in October of 2011. I guess I thought someone would knock on my door and tell me my question had been answered.
Thinking all was for naught, I plugged in my PC keyboard and fixed the problem and then unplugged it.
Anyway, the keystrokes you suggested work wonderfully AND I am awestruck by the link you suggested. I want you to know, I googled the problem and read everything I found and not one person ever mentioned the Mac keystrokes for accomplishing "F-14".
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Hi Ken,
Thanks for posting in MSDN forum.
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It sounds like 2 of your keys are not working after updating to Mavericks. I found this section of an article for you to help troubleshoot this issue named:
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Excel arrow keys stop working (NOT SCROLL LOCK)

Excel Office Pro Plus 2013 on windows 7 64 bit.
This has happened since I loaded it.. older excel never has this issue on same host.
When I am working in a spreadsheet and moving around with arrow keys.. they stop working randomly.
It is NOT scroll lock... I can turn scroll lock on and off no effect.
IF I change to another tab then back to the same tab .. the arrow keys work again!!!
This happens in many spreadsheets... seems like the larger they are the worse it it.. VERY annoying and makes it unusable!!
I have all the latest patches and have rebooted .. this has been going on since I loaded excel.. I was hoping a patch would fix it..
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-Ken

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Hello Larasoft,
I understand you’re up and down arrow keys are not functioning, is that accurate? I will do all I can to help you with this issue.
I want you to access the setup menu to test the keys out, see instructions below.
1.       Shut down the computer.
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6.       Once you tested it press F9 to setup defaults and then press F10 to save and exit.
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