Excel 2016 on Mac jumpy scrolling

Anonymous
2015-03-29T18:47:44+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2016-03-15T12:48:29+00:00

    It's almost as if Microsoft's Excel team doesn't care...

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-03-15T14:56:14+00:00

    Hello,

    i have read your supply.

    I have same problem with scrolling Excel 2016, i have bought mac and office this year in Januar.

    You have solved this problem already?

    Thank

    david

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-03-15T21:23:26+00:00

    Yes!

    Reinstall Office 2011! It's still available on a 365 subscription until September 2016. It doesn't over-write 2016 so you can have both old 2011 & **** 2016 on the Mac & set your default program.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-03-31T22:30:44+00:00

    Unbelievable that after one year they still haven't fixed this. And in Excel 2011 it used to work perfectly.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-04-01T13:56:22+00:00

    What version of Excel do you have? They had set it as a milestone to get rid of the scrolling issue once and for all in 15.20 and so far it appears they have actually done it (haven't had any problems with scrolling after the last update).

    However, I do agree that it is outrageous it took them one whole year to fix it.

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