Excel - how to scroll horizontally

Question

In most applications, one can scroll horizontally using a combination of holding Ctrl/Shift and using the scrollwheel. And in most applications, one can also scroll horizontally by nudging the scrollwheel sideways if the mouse has that feature (mine does).

But in Excel, I cannot find for the life of me, how to scroll horizontally, other than by dragging the scrollbar. I'm only using the mouse - atm I don't use my touchpad and I don't have a touchscreen.

So it's 2019 (for those not yet up to speed), and we have to drag a scrollbar. Srsly? Click and hold on the scrollbar, and drag it back and forth. In 2019.

Please, gentlemen, make Shift+scrollwheel AND sideways scrollwheel work in Excel 365 please. It's really not that difficult. Both these features have been commonplace for a very long time, and of all Office applications, if there's one application where horizontally scrolling is common, it'd be Excel.

Please also note that this is not dependent any what kind of mouse I got. I got no drivers installed other than whatever Windows installs for me by default. Scrolling sideways has been a standard Windows feature since at least several years. Also note that it works in all other applications that listen to the "horizontal scroll" message from Windows, so my hardware+drivers are perfectly sorted.

Answer 1

I used to have a mouse that had a tilting mouse wheel that would allow horizontal scrolling in Excel, with driver support.

FYI: this is not the place to ask for "new features" (new to Office). MS has created a feedback process for them.

Alright, good for you. It works on your machine. It doesn't on mine. And I'm not asking for new features, so please don't slap me on the wrist for telling Microsoft about a bug in a way that doesn't fancy you. You (Microsoft) should be thankful that a user is using his own time to report a bug, and supply as much detail as possible.

Now can we get this fixed, please?

Answer 2

Hi Thanatica, 

Have you checked the reply? Please don't hesitate to update this thread if you have further questions.

 

Regards,

Ivy

Have you? Do you think that was a useful reply?

I'm taking the time to supply as much information as I can to report a bug, and all I'm getting is "it works on my machine". Seriously? I have no further questions, but I do have a request: just get this fixed already!

Answer 3

So I downloaded a workbook I created in Google sheets, which allows the use of the side scroll with the tilting scroll wheel.

I imported some sheets into a workbook that I created with Excel.

Now I can side-scroll with the scroll wheel in the sheets that were imported from the google sheets workbook but I can't side-scroll with the sheets I create in Excel even though they are in the same workbook!

So there has to be a flag somewhere that can be changed I just can't find out how to do it, unless from now on whenever I want to create a new sheet I have to copy one of the google sheets or create it in google sheets then export as excel?

Answer 4

Ok sound apparently if you freeze a column then you are able to scroll the rest of the sheet with the scroll wheel

I just noticed the sheets I imported had the first column frozen.

Edit:

Never mind after I closed the workbook and reopened it now the sheet with no frozen columns can side-scroll and the sheets that originally worked with side-scroll don't work anymore

Something is messed up

Edit2:

After removing the freeze from all sheets now I can side scroll on all of them. So now I'm totally lost in why it works and doesn't work sometimes

It seems to work for me on new workbooks too

Answer 5

To:  Thanatica

Re:  moving horizontally

May help, no mouse...

Ctrl + right or left arrow keys

Home key

Ctrl + Home keys

Ctrl + End keys

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Instead of new features, Excel needs fixes and corrections for existing "features".