Excel scrolls the wrong window on hover

Anonymous
2016-02-19T13:07:31+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2016-11-06T09:32:19+00:00

    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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-11-04T16:22:37+00:00

    Same problem here.  I do data entry of up to 12,000 lines a month reading off of PDF files and entering data in Excel.  This worked fine until recent update.  HUGE problem for me. MICROSOFT PLEASE FIX THIS!

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-11-04T10:40:16+00:00

    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.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-11-03T19:02:05+00:00

    I agree, and it was working fine two weeks ago.  I believe the latest set of microsoft updates broke it.

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