Microsoft optical mouse

[Roger MacInnis]

I don't know if this is the right group, but I would like some help. I just
bot a Microsoft Optical mouse. I opened an excel file and as I was
scrolling down using the "wheel" and it just locked up. If I moved it, it
would "select" a number of cells, I couldn't unlock it, I couldn't exit from
Excel. Does anyone know who I should talk to?

 

[Sarah]

This might not help much but, my optical mouse has a rest button underneath if yours does too try pressing and holding it for a few seconds to see if it resets the mouse.
Other than that i think Crtl and F4 should close the Excel window for you
Also did you do the mouse orientation thing before you started using it this is so it knows whats suposed to be a click or a move left etc.

 

[Gord Dibben]

Roger

This is common behaviour for the wheelie mouse.

Click the wheel a few times.

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

 

[Roger MacInnis]

The mouse has no reset button, CRTL F4 does not work, the "wheel" does not
respond, I have to use Alt Tab to get out of Excel.

The guy at Radio Shack said it was a special limited edition, does this mean
it really doesn't work and they quit making it and I'm stuck with a lemon?

 

[Jim Rech]

I don't think the mouse is a lemon. I've used my Optical for a long time -
maybe 3 or 4 years. When scrolling you may have pressed down a bit too hard
and done a "wheel-click". What a wheel-click does depends on your mouse
settings. Not that you should have been locked into "selection mode". That
problem is sometimes addressed by getting the latest drivers. The drivers
that came with your mouse may be old:

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/Download.mspx