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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:
Read the post from WJ 14 November:
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.
WizMouse fixes this issue, while Microsoft fails.
My clients are having this same problem too. I have tested this myself and it is true; you can no longer auto-scroll an inactive window when an Excel spreadsheet is open. This is not normal behavior and is not the way things worked in the past. Unless Microsoft specifically decided to redesign how this works and programmed things to work this way, this should be reported as a bug that needs to be fixed.
I am also having this issue with Windows 10 Pro x64 (all Windows updates applied) and Excel 2013.
All other inactive windows can scroll fine, it just seems to be Excel.
What you describe seems even worse than before.
I'm still on Windows 10 1511 (build 10586.633) and having an Excel window active does not prevent me to scroll in Outlook / Word / Firefox....
Microsoft PLEASE FIX THIS.