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
    2014-01-17T15:17:07+00:00

    I've been using computers since 1968 and I am absolutely sure that the horizontal scrolling issue is a bug in Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 (at least the Office 365 version).

    I have tried everything I know to determine the root cause and nothing will fix this short of Microsoft going into the code and patching this bug.

    The horizontal scrolling feature that utilizes the tilting of the scroll wheel works for EVERYTHING else in Office EXCEPT PowerPoint (at least on my computer and others that I have around the house).

    I can't get the tilt-wheel to do horizontal scrolling in PowerPoint and I'm using all the latest drivers and it is a Microsoft mouse.

    I would estimate that this is costing me about 15 minutes of extra work a day because I have to always zoom out, use the slider to scroll and then zoom in.  What a pain!

    Please fix this soon.

    Thanks

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-01-17T15:53:34+00:00

    @Microsoft, would you fix this bug please? It's a real problem. I understand you're giving priority to security issues, but srsly, we shouldn't have to push so hard to get you to fix a real bug, albeit a regular one.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-01-28T19:51:45+00:00

    +1, exactly identical behavior as Thanatica described. Does NOT work in Excel 2013, PowerPoint 2013 and Windows Explorer. Works with all other applications including MS Office and Internet Explorer. Windows 7 Enterprise x64 fully updated.

    Works perfectly everywhere including Excel, Powerpoint and Windows Explorer if I downgrade to Office 2010.

    Microsoft, please fix.

    Thanks.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-03-07T15:55:53+00:00

    I have a Microsoft wireless Laser Mouse 7000, and the horizontal scroll wheel doesn't work for in Excel 2013. This is a real pain in that I work with very large spreadsheets constantly and this has been a real unexpected consequence of my recent upgrade from Office 2010 to the Office 365 Pro subscription. I am going to stick with 2010 for the rest of our office until this is fixed.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-03-26T23:57:04+00:00

    Has anyone found a way to scroll horizontally in PowerPoint, Microsoft Office 2013, Office 365 Pro subscription?

    Is there any way to do it short of putting in new or editing libraries?

    I can scroll horizontally in Word and Excel 2013 but there is not way to scroll horizontally using the mouse in PowerPoint 2013.

    PowerPoint 2010 work great for horizontal scrolling.

    Did they just leave this feature out of PowerPoint?

    Will they ever put it back in?

    Irwin Witzel

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