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
    2016-12-05T14:15:41+00:00

    Agreed but I do not wish to install a third-party program, running constantly in the background.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-12-05T14:18:31+00:00

    All well and good but...

    Microsoft introduced a "bug" (the program Excel deviates from expected and publicised performance) in a recent upgrade to Excel and I would expect that this "bug" is fixed in a reasonable delay.

    I do not expect to install 3rd party software to correct a bug

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-12-05T14:46:08+00:00

    o.k...  then wait... and wait...  and wait....  and wait...   Microsoft always let you down.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-12-05T22:03:31+00:00

    I can confirm wizmouse works well and has had no negative affect on the rest of my PC

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