Dragging speed too fast!

[Jamie Martin]

My copy of Excel 2002 seems to have only two speeds when I am dragging the
mouse to increase the size of a selection. It either pokes along adding a
cell a second, or before I can let go of the mouse button it has selected
all 256 columns and around 3,000 rows. Can I set the dragging speed? A fix
in Excel would be preferable to changing the settings on the mouse itself,
because the dragging speed I get in other applications is fine, but I'm
happy to change the mouse settings if that's what's needed.

Any advice appreciated, thanks.

Jamie

 

[EarlK]

Jamie,

Are you trying different overshoots? In XL97 and XP, I find several
auto-scroll speeds depending on how far I've overshot the edge of the
window. The lowest is around 4 rows/sec. The fastest is around 10^22 GHz.

Regards from Virginia Beach,

EarlK

 

[Jamie Martin]

Hi Earl,

I am trying different ones, but I would like to lower my top speed, since I
get a very fast selection rate with what seem to me to be only modest
overshoots, and my hand/eye coordination isn't good enough to keep my
selection rate slow enough.

The basic idea of speed of selection depending on distance of overshoot is a
beautiful piece of user interface design, though, I think . . .