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
    2016-01-08T12:31:01+00:00

    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!

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-12-31T03:26:30+00:00

    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.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-14T15:45:10+00:00

    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%.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-12-09T17:27:44+00:00

    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.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-11-17T17:13:31+00:00

    Thanks!!  This worked well for me...now have horizontal scrolling in Excel!

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