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If two (or more) instances of Excel are open, and one of them has the focus, when hovering the second one, scrolling is still applied to the first one. We need to steal focus from the first window of Excel and then scroll the second.
This seems like a bug and can be reproduced easily (more easily with two monitors).
Lets say you have two windows of Excel open : A and B.
You're working on A but you need to read B. hover your mouse over Excel B, scroll... the scrolling occurs in A ! You must click on B, scroll, then return on A.
Now, with focus on A, open another application (let's say Word), and, of course, set the focus to the newly open app. Be sure to see Excel A and B. Hover your mouse over B, scroll... Scrolling still happens on A.
This does not happen with Word or Outlook. If you open 2 windows of Word, the scroll occurs in the one that is hovered, as expected.
I don't think there's a solution, this is a bug and should be adressed by Microsoft.
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Fixed in insider build 17040. Now we just have to wait for it to be passed into the main release.
See the link below:
Suppose if there are two excel open A and B and you are already working on the editing file A and if you are reading from B but not working on B then you may have to click on file B to scroll.
Ms. Patil. This is not a solution and it is incredibly counter-intuitive. You should be able to scroll whichever window under the mouse. Focused or not focused - whichever application.
If Microsoft is reluctant to fix it, maybe they can bundle WizMouse which seems to does the job adequately?
^ stupid remark? Maybe. But so is not fixing this annoying bug.
Michaël
Believe this is a bug that came in one of the recent Microsoft updates as I have also just started to have the problem.
whilst not a "proper" fix, if you install Wizmouse and disable Microsoft's inactive window scrolling, it seems to sort the issue out with the excel scrolling.
Trust this helps
@Prabhavathi Patil, Now what ?
Did you report this to Microsoft Office Team ??? Do your job !
It seems like Microsoft ignores further information from other users once a reply has been posted in a subject.
I have exactly the same problem.
EXCEL disables the "Scroll Inactive Window" option
The option works perfectly well with Word, Outloog, Chrome, and a host of other programs, so it's definitely an EXCEL problem.
This only happended in the last update ie at the end of October although I was on holiday from mid-Sept to mid-Oct so maybe it's the Sept update.
Windows 10 64-bit, build 14393.351
Excel 2016 MSO (16.0.7329.1017) 32-bit