Why does the scroll button on a mouse only work on scroll bars?

[Bill Goss]

I've just installed Office 2007.
I have found that the scroll wheel on my mouse only works if the cursor is
on a scroll bar.
It is most annoying to not be able to scroll with the mouse on the text of a
page and have to move over to the scroll bar.

All my other Windows applications work fine.
Does anybody else have this problem?
Is there a solution for it?

 

[Bill Goss]

After reading some of the other posts to this group I decided to
- Uninstall and reinstall the mouse driver

This solved the problem!
Scrolling now works properly.

 

[Stevo]

Hmm...something must be messed up with 07's scroll handling because
you are not the first to have a problem with it (but your problem is
unique, others can't get it to work at all). You should probably try
to get a driver update for your mouse. What kind of mouse are you
using?

Stevo

 

[Bill Goss]

I'm using a Dell Premium Optical mouse with the latest drivers.