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September 5th, 2004 19:00

Why won't my Excel scroll?

Please help, this has been bugging me for quite some time.

I have MS Office 2000 Professional.  When I'm in Word, I can use the scroll bar on the right side of the screen and it will scroll through my Word pages.

In Excel however, when I go to move the scroll bar down, the Excel page stays exactly where it is until I lift off the left mouse click button.  Then it will move to however far I've scrolled.  But I can't see what I'm scrolling through in the meantime, I have to guess at far I'm scrolling!

Does this make sense?  I hope I'm explaining it right.  It's really irritating.  Why can't I get my Excel to actually scroll through the pages like my Word does??

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September 10th, 2004 16:00

I don't have the answer, but I got a new Dell 8300 about 5 months ago, and I can't scroll anything in the Visual Basic Editor. I run Office 2003 under Win XP Pro. I looked and posted everywhere, and could not find a solution. I did find others who have the same problem and they couldn't find a remedy. I'm convinced it's a problem in the way they coded the software. They simply didn't put in code for scrolling. You may or may not have a related problem, but I thought I'd toss this in for what it's worth.

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September 10th, 2004 18:00

Thank you for your response - I was wondering why no one had responded!

Guess I'll have to live with it.

I want to upgrade to Office 2003 too, but I see I'll most likely have the same problem as I do in Office 2000.

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September 10th, 2004 21:00

Not necessarily. I used Win 98 before Win XP and I had no problem with scrolling. I was quite surprised when I had the problem in Win XP. As I said, by putting various bits and pieces together, I concluded it was an omission in the VBE code that causes my current problem. In fact, it may well have been intentional. The programmers DO have to include special code to recognize a scrolling request. I DID learn that much. And there were hints that they DID leave it out. As I said, this might be completely unrelated to your problem. Why don't you do some searching in the Microsoft Knowledge Base and see what turns up. Also why don't you amble over to the Mr Excel forum and see what you can find out (www.mrexcel.com).

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