Preventing mouse wheel scroll from flipping to next page

[Mister.Fred.Ma]

I'm using Powerpoint 2003. I'm zoomed into a slide to do fine
changes, using the scroll wheel to pan vertically. As soon as the
viewing window reaches the bottom edge of the slide, the view
immediate flips an entire screen to the top of the next slide. The
diagrams on the 2 slides are very similar, so it is very easy to end
up continuing my edits on the wrong slide. Is there a way to prevent
the scroll wheel from flipping to the next slide? This would be the
equivalent of Adobe Reader's "continuous" view versus "page" view.
Thanks.

 

[Luc]

Mister Fred,

Just my two cents, are you using ctrl+dragging the scroll wheel? This zooms
the actual slide and does not move to the next slide.

 

[Mister.Fred.Ma]

Luc,

That seems like a reasonable fallback method. It works if you don't
want to preserver the set of selected object. Thanks!