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Lee Peverett
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Jan 23, 2018

Horizontal Scroll Wheel Useless in Excel?

I have just purchased a new mouse which, in addition to the standard scroll wheel, has a secondary wheel for horizontal scrolling. The horizontal scroll wheel works on most things so far, including o...
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Valmighty
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Apr 28, 2021

AggieChris holyshoot this works. Thanks mate!

 

I'm almost going crazy. I thought it's something to do with the Windows. But after installing a brand new Windows (fresh install win 10, I was using win 7 upgrade before) and it keeps happening (only scroll once then it fails to respond), i thought it's a product defect.

 

Tempted to buy MX Master 3 but i'm affraid it will have the same shortcoming with the previous S2 that i'm using

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AggieChris
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May 02, 2021
Nice! I'm glad it helped!🙂 Spread the word of you see anyone else ask. I posted it to a couple of places.
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    Valmighty
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    May 30, 2021

    AggieChris Nice! I will let the others know.

     

    Sometimes it doesn't work though. When it doesn't, I alt+tab, use the horizontal scroll, and alt+tab back, and it works. So it has 2 workarounds that guaranteed work. Do you know why this happen? My friend has this exact same MX Master 2s and it works fine without these workarounds 😞

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