Horizontal scroll by mousewheel not working

Anonymous
2013-09-05T07:57:46+00:00

I have a Logitech M500 mouse. This mouse has a mechanical mousewheel (the "ticking" kind), which can also be clicked from the sides to horizontally scroll. The great thing as that this works almost everywhere... In my browser, in Notepad++, basically almost everywhere as far as the programs go that I use. Except for Excel 2013.

Possibly related, it also doesn't work in regular ol' Explorer file browser windows. Not a bother, because I use Total Commander. But the horizontal scroll thing does work in Internet Explorer 10, which seems odd to me (same company behind Explorer and Internet Explorer, after all).

When I got the mouse, I did not install any drivers myself. I just connected the mouse and let Windows looks for and install proper drivers completely automatically. And since it works perfectly in the browser and my code editor, I figured the horizontal scroll function was working properly.

Is there perhaps some kind of thing that I need to do to make Excel recognize a horizontal scoll from the scrollwheel, or have I perhaps stumbled upon a bug?

btw, this is my mouse:

http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/corded-mouse-m500

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-05-12T11:59:02+00:00

    Another approach is to use a key remapper application, like AHK. It should work more-or-less for ANY hardware, including Microsoft's. And there's a ton of discussions (example), related to Excel on AHK forums. I'm a bit surprised that it looks like no one mentioned this app here before.  

    But note that "Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Centre" might conflict with AHK.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-05-16T10:27:07+00:00

    Hi,

    I am using Autohotkey to enable "SHIFT-mouse scroll" type horizontal scroll in Excel. The key shortcut can be changed to anything, if you like..

    Steps

    1. Install Autohotkey
    2. Copy and paste the code below to notepad, and save it as "myscript.ahk"
    3. Right click the file, and select "Run script".

    tips: You may also want to make the script run every time you start your computer, or hide the AHK tray icon.

    #MaxHotkeysPerInterval 200

    #HotkeyInterval 500

    SetTitleMatchMode, 2

    #IfWinActive, Excel

    ~LShift & WheelUp::  ; Scroll left.

        {

            SetScrollLockState, on

            send,{left}

            SetScrollLockState, off

        }

    return

    ~LShift & WheelDown::  ; Scroll right.

        {

            SetScrollLockState, on

            send,{right}

            SetScrollLockState, off

        }

    return

    #IfWinActive

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-08-09T19:05:20+00:00

    I downloaded Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center and double checked that my Horizontal Scrolling was on, which it was. I then when to app-specific settings and clicked Add New, then Manually Add Program and added Microsoft Excel. Side scrolling now works for me in Excel.

    Note: Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000, Windows 10 64-bit

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-09-23T14:58:33+00:00

    Mac user here who is forced to use Windows at work at my new job. I'm using the Apple Magic Mouse (gen. 1) with Windows with the driver from trackpackmagic.com.

    Everything works nicely in Windows with the Apple Magic Mouse and this driver, including "natural" scrolling - both horizontal and vertical in most applications. With Microsoft Office 365 desktop applications (version 15.0.4849.1003), horizontal scrolling using the Apple Magic Mouse works fine in MS Word, but doesn't work in Excel (same version as MS Word). Of course, Excel is one application where horizontal scrolling with the mouse (in this case it's the touch surface on the top of the Apple Magic Mouse) is more important than having this feature in MS Word (where it works just fine).

    This is obviously a bug in Excel - no questions about it.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-12-13T21:22:12+00:00

    This worked for me!

    I have a logitech MX master mouse whose side scroll was not working in Excel 2010, although side scroll for my logitech touch pad was working.

    I did not even know that "Status" button existed! Thanks!

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