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Trouble selecting cells or objects with mouse
Hi, I have Win10 and Office10 installed. Mouse selection has become buggy. In excel, I can no longer reliably left click, hold and drag to select a specific range of cells. It's sloppy...somet...
I've noticed this problem in Excel and Microsoft Edge. In Edge it appeared to be related to the zoom level; if I reset my zoom level I could use the scroll bar otherwise the 'hit box' for the scroll bar and the visual position of the scroll bar were different
In excel I get the issue of selecting a cell and it selects a different cell - this is seems to be where the scroll position of the content on the screen becomes disconnected from the scroll position of the scroll bar. This happens reliably if I have 'freeze panes' activated (e.g. I have the top row of a table frozen). With freeze panes activated scrolling with the scroll gesture on my mouse pad (two finger swipe) disconnects the content scroll position from the scroll bar position - I can see this happening; when I scroll with the mouse pad the page scrolls but the scroll bar doesn't move.
Once the scroll position of the content/page becomes disconnected from the scroll bar position the only way to 're-sync' it is to scroll the page using the scroll bar
I have been having the same trouble since I got a Surface Pro tablet with docking station. Logitech 310 mouse will not swipe very well in just about anything, but most annoying in Excel. But for me the problem was not anything with the computer or the Office apps - it was the Logitech Mouse! I swapped out for a BlackWeb wireless mouse (either USB wireless or Bluetooth) and the problem is gone! Hallelujah!
