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Murgatroyd5050
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Dec 23, 2020

Scroll Inactive Window Doesn't Work for Excel 2016

Hello all, first time posting here. I'm trying to do work, but I've hit a snag where the "Scroll Inactive Window when I hover over it" function works for everything except Excel 2016. My mouse driver...
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Murgatroyd5050
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Dec 30, 2020

Found a workaround for anyone that's running into the same problem. I just downloaded an app called X-Mouse Button Control and that seemed to have overridden the OS in that regard.

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Dardros
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Jun 04, 2021
Been looking for a solution for this. Running Windows 10 on 20H2 MSO 2016 Standard. Installing the app worked.
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    JasonNguyenWI
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    Feb 04, 2022
    I'm having this issue as well on a Windows 11 machine (Win 11 Pro 21H2 22000.469) using Excel 2201 (Build 14827.20158). Any fixes?
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      waskitodw
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      Apr 11, 2022

      JasonNguyenWI turn on synchronous scrolling from view tab. 

       

      https://www.abington.k12.pa.us/tech-savvy/tips/synchronous-scrolling-in-excel/

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