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
    2015-01-27T20:27:48+00:00

    I have a Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Wireless Mouse which is advertised specifically for Windows 8.  I am running Windows 8.1 and Office 2013 since both are needed to take advantage of the touch screen.

    Office 2013 has a mouse mode and a touch mode.  Neither mode helps Power Point's lack of horizontal scrolling with a mouse that is suppose to be designed to support that.  (It works in either mode in Excel, Word and Outlook)

    Going back to Office 2010 isn't an option because of the lack of touch screen support.  I really expected this basic functionality to work with all Microsoft software and their own mouse.

    Please fix this....   IT IS AN OFFICE 2013 ISSUE !

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-01-27T22:46:05+00:00

    It is just not a priority for Microsoft to fix this or it might be that fixing it breaks too many other things. Either way SOL. I have tired for hours to get this to work without any success. Maybe the next version will fix it (but I doubt it!)

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-01-28T11:03:53+00:00

    So long as Office 2013 is the latest version, bugs in it should be fixed. Period.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-02-19T13:39:05+00:00

    Hi

    I bought a MS sculpt mobile mouse. Running win8.1. I installed the Sculpt mobile mouse when I first setup the mouse (download was from MS site) and everything was fine. However, my scroll wheel does not work on the following apps

    1. Excel
    2. PDF documents

    The scroll works perfectly on internet pages. I set vertical scroll (under control panel, printers and hardware, mouse, wheel option) to scroll per screen.  Horizontal scrolling seems to work in Excel. I have to scroll using the scroll bars in Excel instead

    If anyone knew how to resolve this issue, pls reply.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-03-05T01:32:35+00:00

    Same story here.  Horizontal scroll works in some apps, including browsers.  But it does not work in OneNote 2010.

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