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I notice a rather annoying problem with Excel 2016 - when scrolling using either a trackpad or mousewheel, the scrolling is not at all smooth. Instead, the scrolling is very jumpy. By jumpy, I don't mean that the scroll will go from point A to point B in a snap rather than a smooth motion. Rather, when initiating a scroll, the spreadsheet will sort of vibrate and bounce rapidly back and forth before the scrolling commence. The problem is particularly obvious when scrolling horizontally, and it sometimes won't scroll at all, no matter how many times I try. In such instances, the only way to move around the spreadsheet is either the arrow key or by clicking on the scroll bar. Sometimes initiating a scroll would cause a beachball to appear for a sec or two, and I'm on a Quad core 2012 Retina Macbook Pro. This is a persistent problem and has not be fixed in the last Excel update. This is also not a machine dependent problem, because I experience the same scrolling problem on my 13" Retina Macbook Pro as well. Anyone else having this issue?
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This is so poor. I read the complaints back to feb 2015. Why haven't MS sorted this.
I foolishly upgraded to office 2016 last week and the excel scroll issue is a real pain. If only i knew I would have left alone.
Update:28/01/16
No, sorry! Can't live with it!!!
I'm probably teaching people to suck eggs here (being relatively new to a Mac) but I have just re-installed Office 2011 for the Mac. Fairly easy as it's still available on a 365 subscription until September 2016. It doesn't over-write 2016 so you can have both on the Mac & set your default.
Sorted.
So sad :-(
At least I realise that this is not my imagination.
It's horrible.
Hope they help it soon.
Sorry, yes - keyboard repeat rate doesn't appear to affect the mouse wheel scrolling. It influences the scrolling with the arrow keys, which has always been crappy as well.
Mouse wheel scrolling - which I use much less often - actually appears to be slightly improved for me in this latest version. It's still a bit scrappy and juddery, but less so than it was. I also note that the scroll bars no longer look a total mess if you have them set to always be displayed. So there is hope.
Scrolling with the keyboard still awful though! And that damned cursor movement smoothing is still there. Never thought I'd actually want to use OpenOffice Calc rather than Excel... but Excel for Mac is doing its best to try to persuade me ;)
--Tom
I've tried changing the mouse wheel scroll speed and acceleration using the default drivers, SteerMouse and the Logitech Control Center - all to no avail. I don't understand how the keyboard repeat rate would affect mouse scrolling. But even it if does, you shouldn't have to tinker with setting like this to get proper behavior. Scrolling worked just fine in all previous versions of all Excel, there is no excuse for the current mess - and even less excuse for allowing the problem to linger for so long.
Thx for getting into this, Tom. It's a big bummer as i have o work on large sheets for clients. Scolling is pain in the... and i really think about getting back to Office 2011 installation instead of the subsciption.
Alex