Horizontal scroll by mousewheel not working

Hi guys.

I'm using M705 lazer mouse (with Win7) and too was extremely annoyed by the lack of shift+scroll horizontal scrolling feature.

Makeshift workarounds without installations:

• Holding down scroll wheel and moving it once the "drag icon" appears (was way too sensitive for my tastes)
• Pressing "Scroll Lock" and using left/right arrows for horizontal scroll (you have press it again for normal use)

After installing newest SetPoint:

• Tilting the scroll wheel left/right worked without further configuration

After installing a custom Excel add-in from: http://free-sk.t-com.hr/T800soft/software/XLHscroll.htm

• Shift+scroll works horizontally like I always wanted :D

Hope this helps!

PowerPoint will not do horizontal scrolling via tilting the scroll wheel left or right.

This is a Microsoft bug that has not been fixed yet.

In "Devices & Printers" the mouse shows up with the correct name and even picture. This leads me to believe the correct drivers are in fact installed.

The horizontal scroll by mousewheel does in fact work perfectly fine in Word, which further leads me to believe that this problem is in Excel, not in the driver.

I tried a few others as well:

Word: works

Excel: doesn't work

PowerPoint: doesn't work

Outlook: works

Visio: works

Visual Studio 2012: works (not in all panes, tho)

Explorer: doesn't work

Internet Explorer: works

Firefox: works

Photoshop CS5: doesn't work

Command prompt: works (genuinely surprised :P)

Notepad: works

Paint: doesn't work

The fact that it works in so many applications and doesn't work in some other, indicates that it is something that has to be implemented by a developer of that application, and it isn't something that "magically" works like vertical scrolling usually does.

For now, as far as Office 2013 is concerned, this problem exists only in Excel and PowerPoint (although getting PowerPoint to show a horizontal scrollbar is a challenge in itself). If this problem can be fixed in the Explorer as well, that would be awesome.

If you are running your mouse with Setpoint the problem is visible. I have also run tests and side scrolling with my Performance MX seems to work when Setpoint is NOT on. However, as soon as the application is turned on, which I prefer due to customizations with the mouse, side scrolling fails to work within certain applications such as the Edge browser. I'm not sure if this is a Logitech issue with Setpoint or a Microsoft issue.

It is not the OS fault - I have the same problem on multiple machines, running Excel 2003 and 2010 side by side on Win XP and Win 7. I also tried Office 2007 and 13. Excel 2003 works, the rest do not.

 It is not the fault of the mouse (tried 4), or mouse software.

 I agree, MS should admit the bug, and fix it.

 At this point, due to the horrible ribbon, and non-working scroll I prefer to use 2003, unless my client or I absolutely need the additional 2010 functionality. Since I primarily write VBA, those cases are rare. The speed difference, BTW is less then 1%.

I had this problem when I switched laptops but kept the same logitech keyboard/mouse. The mouse and keyboard worked "plug and play" without loading the driver. However, when loaded the driver from the logitech site then sideways scroll worked.