Excel won't scroll, but no frozen panels

My excel suddenly stopped scrolling. I did go to VIEW, Freeze Panels. No panels are frozen, I have nothing to unfreeze. What else can it be?

Is your screen split, and the "other one" is active?

Didn't work...

Scroll Lock did not make any difference.

How are you trying to scroll?

If it is with a mouse wheel, it's possible that the battery in the mouse is dying (if a wireless mouse).

No, it's not a wireless mouse. Cord. Old school. The scroll function works in other windows, like Word, Firefox etc. Just not in Excel.

How are you trying to scroll? Are you able to scroll down using the arrow keys on your keyboard, the scroll wheel, OR the scroll bar on the worksheet?

Sometimes this happens if you have another Excel spreadsheet open and it has a cell selected. In that case your options are limited to editing that cell.

No, even if I have just one file open, it still won't scroll. I click on various cells just be sure (One cell at a time). Change tabs. Close a file, open a new one. Same thing.

I can scroll down using the bar on the side of the screen and using up/down keys. The wheel on my mouse is not producing any results.

Tat_: Try VIEW> WINDOW> SPLIT. Is the SPLIT icon highlighted?

Pete

Pete,

No, it's not. And if I click on "Split" and then try the sections of the split, the scroll with mouse is not working there as well.

I followed this link above and messed with my mouse settings through control panel. I don't think I changed anything other than resetting settings. Somehow it's working now.Thanks! Agree, don't think this was Excel.

Glad that you got it figured out. If your question has been answered, please mark your thread as SOLVED.

Actually, it IS Excel. I'm now using 2016 and the damn mouse scroll is not working for some reason. Something I clicked or typed. It's happened twice before in Excel. The mouse works perfectly in all other aspects in Excel (right click, left click, highlight, etc).

In other applications to include Office, the scroll wheel works. Just NOT IN EFFING EXCEL.

If anyone has found out why (no guessing please...) would you post this? If I find it I'll pass on the info.

MS maybe have provided an IT career for me, however that doesn't mean I think a lot of those people are idiots...

And I found it. At least MY problem (with Excel). If you have another instance of Excel running, and you have cells highlighted in that spreadsheet, the other instance of Excel will not accept the wheel scroll in what it believes is the "non-active" windows. ARGH!!!!! Also, this will prevent you from closing out any other open Excel spreadsheet. Probably more, but I have work to do.

I'm filing a bug with those idiots...

Yes, it was the frozen row for me that did it...spent 15 mins looking for a solution for this (arrrgghhhh!!!!)....just cause excel decided to throw a tantrum

I have found that this happens with Word as well, so I figured it is not directly related to an Excel setting.
I was able to resolve this issue by going to Settings > Accessibility > Visual effects > Animation effects.
Once turned on, the screen will scroll with the slide bar. Unfortunately, I have to keep setting this on after every reboot.

Originally Posted by PeteABC123

Tat_: Try VIEW> WINDOW> SPLIT. Is the SPLIT icon highlighted?

Pete

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Originally Posted by dalmmalee

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Too cool! Have a lovely Excel-ent day!
Pete