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
    2016-11-17T22:14:21+00:00

    thanks for the workaround Wj

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-11-14T10:13:57+00:00

    Wow...  yes, this helps!!

    Thank you very much!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-11-14T09:20:12+00:00

    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

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-11-10T22:26:57+00:00

    The same here....  since October update KB3197954

    While this is an bundled update for many fixes, is not wise to remove this update. 

    Does anyone know how to report this to Microsoft??

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