Dragging the fill handle in Microsoft Excel—white-gloved hand shows up instead of black crosshair (Mac, Mojave, Excel 16.28)

I want to "drag the fill handle" like so:

But for some reason, when I put my cursor in the bottom right corner, I very often get a gloved hand cursor instead of the black crosshair that you would use to "drag the fill handle". This hand doesn't allow me to drag the fill handle. How can I avoid this hand showing up when I'm trying to do this?

I am using Excel 16.28 on a Mac running Mojave.

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I solved this ridiculous problem by simply zooming out and zooming back in. Apparently this is a bug in Excel, where sometimes when working at over 100% zoom, the option to drag the fill handle stops working, until you adjust the zoom to 100%.

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