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
    2015-07-16T10:28:46+00:00

    That is totally amazing - I have never seen such a big issues in any final release software that renders the software completely useless.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-07-15T15:47:33+00:00

    I'm surprised that they didn't fix this issue on the final release.....not usable at all. I have to downgrade to the previous 2011 version.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-07-14T14:28:22+00:00

    Unfortunately, very M$oft-like, they released Office 2016 with the bug.

    In Word 2016 too, it's maddening, and I ditched 2016 already. Unusable for normal work.

    Not only scrolling, but also plain typing, with a lag of 3 to 5 letters, sometimes more.

    Abysmal…

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-04-13T10:27:48+00:00

    Same problem. Sent a frown face from Excel also.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-04-08T20:41:09+00:00

    I'm experiencing the exact same issue. Hopefully they'll have an update soon that'll fix this.

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