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

Anonymous
2016-11-01T16:03:15+00:00

After the last Windows 10 update was installed, my scroll inactive windows setting for my mouse no longer works in Excel 2016 without selecting the window first.  This is a major inconvenience.  Is there a fix for this?

Thanks.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-05-19T09:34:47+00:00

    Not here: only works when using excel and another program (e.g word) but NOT with two excel - windows.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-05-18T17:31:46+00:00

    THIS APPEARS TO FINALLY BE FIXED.

    Updated this morning to Version 1803 (OS Build 17134.48) and, lo and behold, it's working again.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-02-06T15:13:54+00:00

    News from "my" Microsoft contact

    Hello everybody!

    Yesterday I had another phone call and email from "my" Microsoft Support Engineer (Sorry, no names).

    Please call the following link and vote for the problem "Make Excel obey the "scroll inactive windows" setting in Windows 10".  https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/16030891-make-excel-obey-the-scroll-inactive-windows-sett

    As I have learned, this is one of the most direct path to the developers responsible for our Excel problem. Further comments are hardly necessary. I think everything has been said!

    I, for my part, will withdraw a little bit and wait for the build 17040 (see corresponding postings under the link above).

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-01-25T23:08:25+00:00

    This is insane ... I just read through a year's worth of posts and this still isn't fixed?!   I had an unrelated issue with Windows Update, so I am just now experiencing this issue for the first time.  As far as I know, recent Windows updates have not fixed this issue.  So, I'll add my voice to the chorus

    Problem: Scroll inactive windows does not work vis-a-vis Excel.  When Excel is the active Window, other programs do not scroll with mouseover.  When another program is active window, Excel does not scroll with mouseover.

    One thing that I noticed that I don't think has been mentioned previously: the problem starts pretty much the moment that Excel launches.  If you open Excel (e.g. from the start menu) and begin scrolling an inactive window, you'll notice it stop scrolling right when Excel begins to launch.  Not sure if it's important, but whatever the problem is, it's got to do with some presumably core part of Excel that is activated right when the program is launched.

    Windows

    • Edition: Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)
    • Version: 10.0.16299

    Office

    • Product: Office Professional Plus 2013 (15.0.4997.1000) 64-bit
    • Excel Version: Excel 2013 (15.0.4997.1000)

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-01-20T02:58:48+00:00

    Do we know when this will get a stable release? It's been more than 2 months since 17040 was released...

    Around March or April if Microsoft continues with their current cadence of feature updates.

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