unanchor
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editunanchor (third-person singular simple present unanchors, present participle unanchoring, simple past and past participle unanchored)
- (transitive) To raise an anchor or to free a vessel from an anchor.
- (transitive, by extension) To liberate.
- (intransitive) To become loose or physically unattached.
- (transitive, graphical user interface) To release from a fixed position and allow to be moved.
- 2012, Greg Harvey, Excel 2010 For Dummies:
- To unanchor the cell cursor so that you can move it into position for selecting another range, press Shift+F8. This puts you in Add to Selection mode, in which you can move to the first cell of the next range without selecting any more cells.