The excel sheet navigate buttons don't work/remain unavailable - excel

Its very strange that the small sheet navigation buttons (those look like small arrows) in the lower left of windows, either remain fully grayed/unavailable (when workbook is of 2-3 sheets only), or let me navigate only to a few limited sheets (when its more than 3-4 sheets).
Scroll lock is also off.
I'm on windows 11 and am using licensed version of MS Office 2021. Though I am using Asap Utilities add on, but I've also experimented by turning the same off (i.e. no addons).
Can anybody pls help as to what's going on (google didn't help).

All credit of this answer goes to the comment (answer) written by #prema
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"It is greyed out when you see all tabs and no more are hidden on the left or right."

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If you want to speed up the search, you may want to use a 3rd party tool. Long-time Excel MVP Bill Manville wrote a VBA add-in that finds links in the worbook. It's available for free here: https://www.manville.org.uk/software/findlink.htm
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We cannot recreate the issue on command; we are not sure what causes it. I am not even sure what to Google (list below)! We'll be working in a sheet, all is normal, moving from cell to cell or whatever... then at some point, moving from one typical cell to the next, suddenly, the sheet just... stops letting us use it. It just stops letting us make changes and acts strange.
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Can edit some cells, but the changes will "vanish" when you leave the cell.
Can not click on all cells. The selector with just not highlight them.
Can not add or remove filters, or sort.
Can not Copy or Paste.
Can not delete any cells that can be highlighted.
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I am using Excel 2010 and am having difficulty with one old workbook created in Excel 2003. Lots of symptoms to report!
No other workbooks are giving me this problem. This problem file usually causes "MS Excel - (workbook name.xls) [Compatibility Mode] (Not responding) and a blank screen apart from the task bar and this Excel message on a single line across the top of the screen. Waiting doesn't solve the problem. If I close Excel and choose the "Close program" option, it sometimes shows me the file as I remember it for a couple of seconds, then the program closes. Re-opening the file just gives the same behaviour again. During the first few seconds of loading, I can see the message "Contacting server for information" at the bottom of the Excel screen.
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Try the following:
Open the Excel application, with a blank workbook. Set calculation to manual. Now look up your Macro settings and set these to "disable with notifications".
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I hope this helps!

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