Zoom not working with wireless mouse and Windows 7

[katluc]

I installed Office 7 on a new system with Windows 7 and a Microsoft wireless
laser mouse 6000 and the zoom won't work using the control key with the wheel
on the mouse -- it works fine on my old XP system and with my adobe products
on the new system -- is there a way to make the zoom work again?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Have you installed the mouse drivers and checked to make sure that the
button (and wheel) assignments in the mouse Properties are correct?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Tony Jollans]

The IntelliPoint software is probably to blame - it has been this way since
Adam was a lad. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Exactly why
Microsoft Mice do not work properly with Microsoft software, whilst every
other manufacturer's mice do, remains a mystery.

 

[Marvin42]

A co-worker of mine just had the exact same problem. (I think the mouse was a
"Wireless Mobile Mouse 6000" or some such mouthful.) What we found was that
the ctrl-mousewheel zoom feature would work maybe 10% of the time; most of
the time the command would be ignored, or it would respond with something
like a half-second delay.

We fixed it by switching back to her old Dell/Microsoft super-basic corded
USB mouse. It works perfectly.

We used the same version of the Intellipoint driver, in Windows 7, for both
mice. The creaky old corded mouse worked; they shiny new wireless mouse did
not.