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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:
Main thread seems to be here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/after-last-update-scroll-inactive-windows-doesnt/c10c0910-cdfd-4713-bf5e-32e10fbd88ef
Nope. Read carefully. This is not the same issue.
The thread you link to is about a problem with the feature itself, in Windows, broken after some update. I have not installed that update and hover-scrolling works fine with one window of Excel open.
This one thread is about a bug in Excel where you can't hover-scroll a window when another one is active. Excel overrides the default behavior of Windows.
Main thread seems to be here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/after-last-update-scroll-inactive-windows-doesnt/c10c0910-cdfd-4713-bf5e-32e10fbd88ef
Nope. Read carefully. This is not the same issue.
The thread you link to is about a problem with the feature itself, in Windows, broken after some update. I have not installed that update and hover-scrolling works fine with one window of Excel open.
This one thread is about a bug in Excel where you can't hover-scroll a window when another one is active. Excel overrides the default behavior of Windows.
Good point - I read it too quickly.
However, I would be shocked if this is not the underlying problem of the issue I linked to.
It makes perfect sense that this bug in Excel is causing the scrolling problem in Windows, which only happens while Excel is the active window, or trying to scroll Excel while it is not the active window.
Thanks!
You are surely right !