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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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Given how obvious and annoying this problem is, I'm surprised I haven't been able to find more posts or complaints about it. I wonder is there is some setting or option that we're missing.
Moving the focus between cells is also way too slow and laggy. I can't understand how Microsoft consider either of the central UI problems to be acceptable.
No wonder : this is M$oft. Welcome in Steve Ballmer's world.
You better go back to Microsoft Web site and look again. Mr Ballmer has moved on.
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Yes, I'm aware of that, dear.
But his spirit surely lives on.
I noticed very quickly what the problem is. Excel keeps an entire cell in the window, so it bounces up or down to make sure the whole cell can be seen. This is particularly obvious and annoying when working on a spreadsheet with a lot of large, text-filled cells. It's driving me nuts! I don't care if I can see the whole cell above or below the one I'm working on. I'm trying to find a way to turn this feature OFF so it will scroll normally.