Horizontal scroll by mousewheel not working

Dear Microsoft!

What can I do?  have same problem with my mouse and the Excel program. It is very annoying.

Please help me.

best regards Laszló Lantos

It seems that for some reason, Microsoft is not interested in adding "horizontal scrolling" to Excel (preferably with Shift key altering scroll function). Microsoft doesn't like power users. More important are colourful backgrounds and arrays of millions of colours (the latter perfectly impede filtering) as they are more attractive for its marketing target, i.e. "normal users", which are in bigger number than power users. Horizontal scrolling is not required by normal users.

And buying 2-wheel mouse is not possible as well. Even "if" – not every environment allows to utilize 2-wheel mice.

We are trapped.

Unfortunately I have same feeling. The this is my second high price mouse at the last 5 years. Usually I used for for the "no type" cheap Logitech mouse (probably it was the most cheapest mouse) for work. Than bought a new (probably one of the most expensive Logitech mouse) and I bought the newest Microsoft Office ... and together are no working. It is very sad for me. I am an engineer, I used all day my mouse and the office ...

I think I will write to Logitech. Maybe they will work with my problem. If they skip my letter, I never will by Logitech product. Unfortunately Office is the best, so I must use Excel for the future to.

Happy Easter

Laszlo Lantos from Hungary

I have confirmed it is a microsoft issue and global hotkeys, not a logitech issue. (I have experienced thissince Office 2010 with several microsoft keyboard and mouses along with logitech. Microsoft will not fix this, maybe because of too many people addressing it as mouse issue. I know for a media player with a similar issue there was a fix in windows registry to accept a different type something like a low level hook and I have a feeling it is a similar fix here.

Working Solution: Foolproof!

I was struggling a lot with this for a while and found a solution that is guaranteed to work. It involves the use of an existing workaround for those without the horizontal mouse scroll: it creates a shortcut. While holding shift, pushing the scroll wheel up and down will cause you to scroll from left to right. It can be found here: http://free-sk.t-com.hr/T800soft/software/OfficeScroll.html

Once you've installed the add-on, you can simply build an application-specific macro so that, whenever you're in Excel, scrolling left will hold shift, wait 10 milliseconds, scroll down, and release shift. Set the macro to trigger every 20 milliseconds while you're holding the left scroll. Do the same for the right scroll. Here is a screenshot:

This will behave exactly like normal horizontal scrolling. Depending on your mouse driver, it will probably look different, but try to achieve the same general idea.

Notes to install the hyperlinked addon:

I had some trouble, so I wanted to let you guys know. First, try the normal way outlined in the INFO.txt file. If this doesn't work (it didn't for me), simply follow the steps below:

1. Manually extract and copy all the files in the zip to "C:\Users\Andy\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\AddIns" (without the quote marks). NOOB ALERT: AppData is a hidden folder. Go to Organize > Options > View and check the box "show hidden files and folders." the AppData folder should now be visible. If you can't find a button that says organize, go to the view tab on the ribbon and select "view hidden files and folders." If you can't find either of these buttons, then go Google it.

2. Go into Excel, hit file > options > add-ins
3. Look for Manage: Excel Add-ins. Hit Go

4. hit Browse

5. Go to where you extracted the files and select the one called "MsoScroll.xla" and hit okay.
6. no errors or warnings should appear. A new item should be in the list called Office Scroll Add-in Loader. Ensure the box is checked.
7. hit okay, and leave the options menu before closing and re-opening office.
8. Test the addon. Shift+ scroll up or down should result in horizontal scrolling
9. Do whatever steps you need to set up the macro described above and you should be horizontal scrolling like a boss.

I would like to emphasize that this is a hacky workaround and MICROSOFT OFFICE SHOULD FIX THIS PROPERLY!!! Having to do this kind of **** is insane. Anyway, it should work.

If you can get shift + scroll to work, but the macro isn't working, try increasing the delay between the "shift-down" event and the "scroll-wheel forward" event. If this doesn't work, try adding multiple "scroll-wheel forward events," playing with the delay between repeats, and general ****. 

If you can't get shift + scroll to work, try making sure that the extracted files are in the right directory. If there is no folder called add-ins, try finding an add-ins or plugins folder in excel's AppData file. Just generally look around for anywhere you might expect to find add-ons for something either Microsoft office or excel related and paste the files there. Remember not to paste the folder, paste the files.

Best of luck, it shouldn't be too difficult, but I like to be thorough when posting because the only thing worse than a bug you can't find a solution for is a bug that some guy posts a solution for with the note that it might require some tweaking, but no instructions on how to actually tweak it properly. May the Force be with you.