How can I enable mouse scroll wheel function in Word 2007?

[Larry the Safety Guy]

Scrolling with the mouse scroll wheel does not work in Word 2007 "out of the
box", but is enabled in all other applications, including Word Help (the
problem is not hardware...). What can I do to enable the scrolling? I can
still depress the wheel and then floating scroll as in other applications,
but this is not a precise as controlling the scrolling click-by-click.

 

[Vandana Bellur]

Hello,
I found out the way!!! I had the same problem. This is what I did in my
Windows XP desktop.
Follow these steps to enable the wheel scroll.
1. Open 'Control Panel' and click on 'Printers and Other Hardware'
2. Click on 'Mouse' and you get 'mouse properties' dialogue box.
3. Choose the 'Wheel' Tab
4. You have the first section (wheel) and it has two radio buttons.
5. Choose the second radio button "Use Microsoft Office 97 Scrolling
Emulation Only' - and you can use the wheel scroll in all your applications!!!
OR
Choose the first radio button " Enable Universal Scrolling" and click on the
'Exceptions..' button.
* Choose the Application in which you would want the wheel scroll to work!

I hope it works for you.

________________________________________

 

[Larry the Safety Guy]

Thanks letting me know I'm not alone in my frustration. However, I'm running
XP Pro and in my control panel I don't have "Printers and Other Hardware". I
did find a mouse properties tab elsewhere, but it did not have scrolling
emulation as an option. Oh well, I'll keep trying. Thanks for your help.

Larry

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

What mouse are you using?

I had been using a wireless laser mouse 6000, but found it endlessly
frustrating in Word 2007 in both XP and Vista. I finally threw in the towel
and reverted to my older Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer 2.0. Some things are
still a bit recalcitrant (Ctrl+Zoom, especially, which I've solved by
relying on the zoom slider on my MS Natural Ergonomic 4000 keyboard), but
scrolling has been decidedly more predictable since [sadly] setting the 6000
aside.

 

[Therese]

I also have the same problem! I'm using XP Pro on a laptop - and also don't
seem to have the scrolling options everyone else does either! Does anyone
else have suggestions - other than plugging in a mouse?

 

[Windows User2007]

Good point - I just checked the same thing. Well done M$. Scrolling doesn't
work in Word, but works in Word help. As someone has pointed out, switching
from Enhanced Scroll Mode to Intelli-Mouse mode works, but I don't know how
to set the same scroll rate - where I had 3 lines per scroll unit.

 

[Patrick]

Good point - I just checked the same thing. Well done M$. Scrolling doesn't
work in Word, but works in Word help. As someone has pointed out, switching
from Enhanced Scroll Mode to Intelli-Mouse mode works, but I don't know how
to set the same scroll rate - where I had 3 lines per scroll unit.

Ctrl-Wheel_roll zooms in most applications I run (Firefox, Acrobat,
Excel'07, Powerpoint'07), but NOT Word'07.
I'm using Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 and Intellioint
6.10.158.0.

My wheel scrolls up/down the document, but with Ctrl-wheel there is no
zoom in/out ike other applications.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Patrick

 

[Danny]

I have the same problem. Windows XP Pro, Wireless Laser 6000 Mouse. Scroll
Wheel doesn't work.

Help!!!

 

[J Walker]

I have exactly the same problem too. Windows XP, Office XP, Belkin laptop
mouse.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

What if you give the wheel a really fast twirl? Does it work then?

I find that it works if twirled really fast, but not very well, and it can't
be controlled with any precision. My own "solution" is that I've given up
using Ctrl+Zoom in Word 2007, and use either the slider in the status bar
(bottom of the Word window) or the Zoom control built into my keyboard.

 

[wagibson]

An answer elsewhere pointed out that the wheel does scroll as long as the
Word window is not active - surely a fault in the MS programming

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Scrolling itself doesn't seem to be a problem in Word (at least not here).
The original question was about Ctrl+wheel for zooming. In any case, it does
indeed look like a fault in MS' programming since [here, anyway] the problem
occurs only in Word and in Outlook message and notes windows (e.g., in the
notes area of a contact, journal entry, task, etc.). Here, the problem
occurs in Word 2003, as well... so I suspect that the basic problem is how
the mouse and Word talk to each other.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com