Excel scroll lock problem

No matter what I do, I can't turn the scroll lock off on Excel. It was all working fine until today. I assume I accidentally hit a wrong combination of keys.
In any case, it is driving me mad. I have wireless keyboard with buttons up to F12, so the F14 fix that I have read about doesn't work for me.
Please please please help. This is consuming me.

Hi,
possible solution - worked for me
I had the same issue on a macbook pro.
As the macbook keyboard has no f14 key I had to find a workaround.
Here we go:
I downloaded "big screen keys" (virtual keyboard), installed, hit f14 on the onscreen keyboard and saved a few thousand mouseklicks.
Big screen keys is freeware. I hope it works for you.
http://www.schoolfreeware.com/BigScreenKeys.html
best regards

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