The research tool in Excel is activated by Alt + left mouse button to display the interface on the right side of the interface. However, many people often click by mistake, causing the research interface to continuously display, affecting your data adjustment in Excel. If you do not need to use research in Excel, you can completely turn off this tool according to the instructions below.
What is the Research feature in Excel?
The Research tool in Excel is a data and content search tool and is activated by the Alt key and the left mouse button. The Research interface in Excel is displayed on the right side of the screen for you to enter the content you want to search for. To turn off this interface, just click on the X icon in the corner.

But many people want to completely turn off the Research tool in Excel, so they need to set it up differently.
Instructions to turn off Research in Excel
Step 1:
You press Alt + F11 to open Microsoft Visual Basic on Excel. Next, the user clicks View and selects Immediate Windows (Ctrl + G) to open the command input window.

Step 2:
When the command input interface is displayed below, enter the command line below and press Enter . Then press the Alt + Q key combination to save this change. As a result, when returning to the Excel interface, pressing the Alt + mouse click key combination will not display the Research tool .
Application.CommandBars(“Research”).Enabled = False

Step 3:
In case you need to reuse this Research tool in Excel, we enter the command below into the Microsoft Visual Basic interface. Then press Enter and Alt + Q to save.
Application.CommandBars(“Research”).Enabled = True
The result when you press Alt + click will display the Research tool again on the right side of the Excel interface screen.

How to turn Research back on in Excel
In case you want to re-enable the Research tool in Excel, we need to reopen the VBA interface, then press Ctrl + G to open the command input window.
Below you enter the command below and press Enter.
Application.CommandBars(“Research”).Enabled = False
Then we press the key combination Alt + Q to save and exit editing mode. Then you reopen the Research interface in Excel as usual.
