How can I bring the keyboard shortcut "verticle scrolling (alt+mouse scroll)" back?

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How can I bring the keyboard shortcut "verticle scrolling (alt+mouse scroll)" back?

Boyang Lin 0

Microsoft Edge has always been the first choice when I was trying to browse PDF on windows 11, I really appreciate the conciseness & easy-to-use of it.

When reading scientific papers that are always distributed in the format of PDF, I will set one of my mouse side buttom to "ctrl" while the other one to be "alt", then I can just lie on my chair with a cup of tea/coffee in my left hand, at the same time controlling the horizontal scrolling (alt+mouse scroll) & verticle scrolling (mouse scroll) & zoom in/out (ctrl+mouse scroll) without using keyboard, you can even put your mouse in your pants pocket and control the whole page as you wish.

When it comes to the newer version of Microsoft Edge and Edge Dev, however, the keyboard shortcut "alt+mouse scroll" is cancelled, instead "alt" itself activates the "..." buttom which is quite stupid for me to say. So if it is possible, I wonder if someone could kindly point me the way to bring the "horizontal scrolling" back, it's really helpful while reading PDFs

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The other suggestion is to abolish the "Tab" shortcut or just develop a switch to temporarily cancel it.

"Alt+tab" shortcut is frequently used in my daily life. After switch back to Edge from the other app by "alt+tab", the Tab focus (dashed-lined rectangle thing, idk what it's called) will occasionally jump to the next one, then I have to scroll back to find the place I just read, it's really upsetting.

Boyang Lin 0 Reputation points

2023-09-07T08:54:50.4766667+00:00

Hi Mrs Bao,

Thank you very much for your comment, and also, I should give my greatest thanks to you and your excellent job & high efficency. "Shift+mouse scroll" reallty works in the version I recently used.

I have changed the setting of my mouse side buttom and seems that there's no need to send the feedback about this issue though, for me a little "setting change" is convenient also. So Microsoft Edge is always the greatest PDF viewer and it's also a good browser with clean apparances.

I would try to send the feedback about the skippy Tab focus issue, and thank you again for telling me the way to send the feedback I have been deciding to report for a long time.

Plus, I'm a new-comer of this forum, I didn't actually find the "Accept Answer" buttom but I clicked the vote buttom below the comment box, I wish that it is ok for you.

Thank you again for helping me to solve this problem.
Maggie Bao (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 105 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-09-07T09:41:29.2066667+00:00

Hi Boyang Lin,

Thanks for your quick response. We are glad to hear that Shift+ mouse scroll works for you. Thus, I have converted my comment to Answer which will be helpful for users who have the same issue in the future.

You are always welcomed in Q&A forum if you have any questions about Microsoft Edge.

Thanks for using Microsoft Edge and wish you a nice day.

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Boyang Lin 0 Reputation points

2023-09-07T08:54:50.4766667+00:00

Hi Mrs Bao,

Thank you very much for your comment, and also, I should give my greatest thanks to you and your excellent job & high efficency. "Shift+mouse scroll" reallty works in the version I recently used.

I have changed the setting of my mouse side buttom and seems that there's no need to send the feedback about this issue though, for me a little "setting change" is convenient also. So Microsoft Edge is always the greatest PDF viewer and it's also a good browser with clean apparances.

I would try to send the feedback about the skippy Tab focus issue, and thank you again for telling me the way to send the feedback I have been deciding to report for a long time.

Plus, I'm a new-comer of this forum, I didn't actually find the "Accept Answer" buttom but I clicked the vote buttom below the comment box, I wish that it is ok for you.

Thank you again for helping me to solve this problem.
Maggie Bao (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 105 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-09-07T09:41:29.2066667+00:00

Hi Boyang Lin,

Thanks for your quick response. We are glad to hear that Shift+ mouse scroll works for you. Thus, I have converted my comment to Answer which will be helpful for users who have the same issue in the future.

You are always welcomed in Q&A forum if you have any questions about Microsoft Edge.

Thanks for using Microsoft Edge and wish you a nice day.

Answer 1

Hi Boyang Lin,

Thanks for posting in our Q&A forum.

I tried to test in the latest version 116 and the horizontal scrolling (alt+ mouse scroll) is indeed not working.
Please try to use shift+ mouse scroll or left/right Arrow keys for horizontal scrolling in Edge 116 version.

For your requirement: bring back the (alt+ mouse scroll) feature and your suggestion: abolish the "Tab" shortcut or just develop a switch to temporarily cancel it, we would suggest you use Send feedback button (Alt+ Shift+ I) in Edge browser to provide feedback to Edge team.

Thanks for your understanding.

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Maggie Bao

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