After Last Update Scroll Inactive Windows Doesn't Work With Excel 2016

I've just recently installed Office 365 (July 2017) and experience the same problem. Excel will not let go of the scroll wheel when I hover over another application (like a Chrome or Edge window).

Here's the irony: The "Scroll inactive windows when I hover over them" setting works for everything else I have installed: EXCEPT FOR EXCEL - A flagship product from Microsoft.

So, every application on this PC supports the default Windows 10 setting, except Excel.

Microsoft, please fix this problem. It's been over eight months since people began reporting the issue (after an update caused the problem). Please escalate the problem to resolve it - or tell us that it isn't a problem. Thanks.

I cannot believe that this is still an issue. It's been almost a year since this has been reported and still nothing has been done about it. Kinda sad if you ask me.

@ Kim8652 and others

I just used for the first time the "Feedback" possibility in Windows 10.

Beside a short text of 1000 characters Feedback allows to add a movie recording of what is done/ongoing on the screen. I used "Send Feedback" in my home language and recorded a mouse scrolling problem in Resourcemanager.

I think the movie recording possibility is ideal to report to Microsoft on the problems we all see around "Scroll Inactive Window" and this is DIRECT reporting to Microsoft (not to any Moderators on this forum who might add their own thinking/modification).

I would therefore propose some others will also use "Feedback", especially in English, to record/send movies on the 2 somehow different problems

1. 1 Excel Window in combination with other program windows (Word, Firefox, ....)   and
2. 2 or more Excel Windows

In my understanding the movie recording does not include voice and therefore it is good to prepare in advance of the recording some text messages giving the viewer some basic info what is done/ongoing (like in 100 year old films).

Example of such text message:

Now Excel is the active window. "Scrolling Inactive Window" does only scroll the active Excel window, even when the mouse points on the inactive .... Window."

These text messages should give also a good guidance what to include in the recording and KISS (keep it short and simple) should work best.

If several people report within short time proven by attached movies clear problems on mouse scrolling in Windows 10 I think there is a good chance to get Microsoft to wake up on this poor working functionality

(no feedback yet on this forum that Microsoft got the message and has taken some decision).

Throwing my voice in as well as I'm having the same issue. It's extremely frustrating. Can't believe it's been going on for this long either. I can understand if this isn't a priority, but some acknowledgement would be nice rather than the run-around.

Discovered something regarding scrolling multiple workbooks without selecting each one.

Even with the software fix, Excel won't scroll two open files on hover--you have to make the file/sheet active.

For reasons of memory management and ability to shut down a hung workbook without killing them all, I frequently open "separate instances" of Excel.  To do this (one way) hold down Alt key, right click on Excel icon (in taskbar), keep holding Alt until prompted if you want to open a separate instance, click yes.

In this case, each separate instance is independent and you can scroll by hovering without selecting.

Note: this method has issues as it is harder to copy/paste between sheets, and you should not open multiple instances of the same file as the changes are not communicated between instances.  Nonetheless, I have found this very useful.