Microsoft, microsoft ... that's just silly.
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Open two copies of Excel, with different sheets (I do this on separate monitors). Give Excel 1 the focus, and then position the mouse over Excel 2 - do not click. Twiddle the mouse wheel to scroll the sheet on Excel 2. Notice that the sheet on Excel 1 scrolls instead ... :doh:
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Open two copies of Excel, with different sheets (I do this on separate monitors). Give Excel 1 the focus, and then position the mouse over Excel 2 - do not click. Twiddle the mouse wheel to scroll the sheet on Excel 2. Notice that the sheet on Excel 1 scrolls instead ... :doh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
That's long been Linux' mouse behavior to scroll that over which it is hovered. I like it.
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Open two copies of Excel, with different sheets (I do this on separate monitors). Give Excel 1 the focus, and then position the mouse over Excel 2 - do not click. Twiddle the mouse wheel to scroll the sheet on Excel 2. Notice that the sheet on Excel 1 scrolls instead ... :doh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
This isn't just Excel nor is it silly. Instead, it's good user interface design. A lot of people will move their mouse away from the application they're working in to avoid having it clutter the work surface. This is really useful when working in Word or another text editor and is far better than having the mouse "disappear".
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Open two copies of Excel, with different sheets (I do this on separate monitors). Give Excel 1 the focus, and then position the mouse over Excel 2 - do not click. Twiddle the mouse wheel to scroll the sheet on Excel 2. Notice that the sheet on Excel 1 scrolls instead ... :doh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
It fills me with furious anger everytime I select a row to highlight it, then click on another application and that row is no longer selected :mad:
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I could've sworn the Mouse applet in Control Panel used to have a checkbox to control exactly that behavior - I forget what it might have been called, and I can't find it right now. Of course, they had to re-do everything in Windows 10, so that doesn't help either. [Edit] On Win10, Settings, Devices, Mouse, there's a switch labeled "Scroll inactive windows when I hover over them", which seems to be exactly that. However, Excel does seem to go out of its way to ignore that.
My Windows 10 Pro version 2004 doesn't have a switch labeled "Scroll inactive windows when I hover over them". What am I doing wrong?
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My Windows 10 Pro version 2004 doesn't have a switch labeled "Scroll inactive windows when I hover over them". What am I doing wrong?
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It is indeed strange, but ... it's also a very, very good spreadsheet, and a whole load better than any other. Nothing else even comes close. Unlike Word, which could be beaten by a pencil and paper most of the time. :laugh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Indeed so - Excel is the real flagship in Office and always has been. I do quite like Quattro Pro though, which is a much extended Lotus 123 and more compatible with that than Excel.
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My Windows 10 Pro version 2004 doesn't have a switch labeled "Scroll inactive windows when I hover over them". What am I doing wrong?
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My Windows 10 Pro version 2004 doesn't have a switch labeled "Scroll inactive windows when I hover over them". What am I doing wrong?
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It fills me with furious anger everytime I select a row to highlight it, then click on another application and that row is no longer selected :mad:
I know exactly what you're talking about - I can picture the label in VS's WinForm editor, but I forget its name ("Always Show[...]"?). Why that's turned off by default, I don't know. It's always the first thing I change when putting together a new form that has such controls.
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Open two copies of Excel, with different sheets (I do this on separate monitors). Give Excel 1 the focus, and then position the mouse over Excel 2 - do not click. Twiddle the mouse wheel to scroll the sheet on Excel 2. Notice that the sheet on Excel 1 scrolls instead ... :doh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
OriginalGriff wrote:
Open two copies of Excel, with different sheets
Did you really open two copies of Excel, two instances, or are there two worksheet windows running under a single instance (the default since 2013 version)? See: Opening workbooks by running separate instances of Excel for more info.
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Try it with Chrome: two windows, one with CP on it. The other with Dilbert[^]. Click on CP to give it the focus. Move the mouse over Dilbert, but do not click. Move the mouse wheel. Which one scrolls, CP or Dilbert? Dilbert does, as you would expect. Move the mouse over CP, and again, don't click. Move the mouse wheel. Which one scrolls, CP or Dilbert? CP does, as you would expect. Excel doesn't do that: it scrolls the focussed spreadsheet, not the one under the mouse pointer. Which is damn annoying!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
