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Which is why I said, Quote: Browsers now do it
It referring to scrolling without focus.
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Yes, but only the window under the mouse pointer, not the focussed window! Excel just does it to be annoying ... and only if the mouse is over any Excel spreadsheet, not Chrome, or Windows Explorer, or ...
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OriginalGriff wrote: but only the window under the mouse pointer
Yes, that's what I said the first time. You seem to be misunderstanding what I said.
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This feature is something linux does better than windows, you can set the setting to scroll active window. I am hoping windows catches up soon and makes it a windows thing instead of per app thing.
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What annoys me is SSMS scrolling both the query pane and the result pane unless I select one.
modified 1-Sep-20 9:52am.
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really? What version? I've never seen that. Some programs have a setting to do that so maybe you turned on a setting?
In 2018, it works like the browsers, scrolls whatever the mouse is over.
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I'm using SSMS 2014, and 2012 may have done it as well, but I don't think older versions did.
Nothing in the settings looks like it would do that.
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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.
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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.
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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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I thought that: you have to select the mouse in the list on the left
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It shows up on my 2004 system. It's right under the "Choose how many lines to scroll each time" slider.
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I'm on 2004 as well, so even though they keep moving that crap around in each version, yours should still match mine. I've spelled out the steps to get there in my post, and I've just verified that I haven't skipped any.
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Yes, that has bugged the heck out of me numerous times as well. With Word or a browser going, Excel always manages to scroll when I don't want it to!
Another major annoyance is when Excel and Word go out of focus, they no longer highlight the currently highlighted or selected cells. That makes it really hard to keep track of where you are when in another program and glance back over to remind yourself what you were doing.
Other than that, I don't get the hate for Word. To me, it is an extremely powerful editor when you know the its ins and outs. I formatted an entire book in it, including embedded pictures and the index, and it worked far better than the version of Serif's PagePlus I bought that many people swore by. Serif's indexer wasn't even a tenth as good as Words.
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One clarification: Word's ribbon absolutely sucks. It should burn in the lowest levels of hell for all eternity, and those who designed and pushed it over the menu system lack the intelligence to eat breakfast cereal.
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I found out users were running multiple instances of my app, because they could, even though I had never considered it myself at the time (Win 95 / XP). But no multiple monitors.
I find that FireFox gets confused with multiple monitors if one of them isn't turned on at start up.
And VLC player freaks out moving between monitors of different resolutions; picking monitors other than the one intended.
It's a user model they're still trying to get a handle on.
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IIRC mouse handling has been butchered in the Windows 98 timeframe due to licensing.
Once upon time we had X Window style mouseover activates the underlying window setting, too.
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They've just jacked up the scroll wheel in general. Something as simple as scrolling through the start menu has become tedious if you don't click in the right place to start scrolling there.
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That's long been Linux' mouse behavior to scroll that over which it is hovered. I like it.
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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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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 
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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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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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5teveH wrote: hugely talented,
I have a different definition of talent than you do. 
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ZurdoDev wrote: I have a different definition of talent than you do.
LOL Yep, it's all down to personal taste/opinion. It would be a very boring world if we all liked the same song...... Song written - for everyone. Job done! No-one else need bother.
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