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
    2015-09-10T14:44:44+00:00

    Well my Excel Works great but my boss have the same problem

    my mac is from 2014

    Boss's mac is from 2012

    could it be hardware related

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-09-14T00:53:11+00:00

    I am having the same problem and my Mac is the 2012 version...

    Surely a 2012 mac should run something as basic as excel without it being so buggy.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-09-15T19:50:03+00:00

    Still broken in 15.14 (150911)

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-09-17T00:58:19+00:00

    This is pretty much the worst UI design decision I've seen in a long time. Whoever thought this was helpful should be let go. Microsoft, can you please make a toggle in the preferences to turn off this "feature"?

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-10-04T22:37:02+00:00

    I'm using it on a 2015 13" Macbook Pro. So if it's model-related (which seems unlikely, though stranger things have happened) then it can affect the latest models too.

    --Tom

    P.S. every time I use Excel, I send the Excel people an unsmiley face message about how the scrolling is awful. So hopefully they'll eventually get the message :-|

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