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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:
Wow... yes, this helps!!
Thank you very much!!
thanks for the workaround Wj
I am also experiencing this issue. Hover scrolling works fine as long as Excel is not the active window. As soon as Excel becomes the active window, hover scrolling ceases to function and only Excel scrolls regardless of where the mouse cursor is positioned on screen.
For instance, I have two monitors A1A2 and B1B2 (A1 being the left half of monitor A, A2 the right half, and so on). I am typing this in Chrome in A2. Excel is open in A1 and Word is occupying all of B. With Chrome as the active window hover scroll works on the Chrome and Word windows but does nothing over the Excel window. If I make Excel the active window then scrolling over any of the windows makes Excel scroll, not just when the mouse cursor is over A1.
I am using Office 2010 and Windows 10, both as far as I can tell fully updated.
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.