How do I turn off MS mouse wheel scroll?

[MrBill]

I have Office 2003 and a MS Mouse using Intellipoint software. I've
turned off the scroll wheel in the control panel, but it continues to
work in Excel . . . how do I turn it off everywhere?

Thanks, Bill

 

[MartinW]

Hi Bill,

If you are talking about having the wheel scroll instead of
zooming, goto Tools>Options>General and uncheck
'zoom on roll with intellimouse'

AFAIK I don't think you can stop it scrolling.
Out of interests sake why would you want to?

Regards
Martin

 

[MrBill]

Hello Martin,

That box was already unchecked. I think you're right in that I won't
be able to keep the wheel from scrolling in Excel. The reason I don't
want the wheel scroll is because on my mouse the wheel is VERY
sensitive. Sometime when clicking a button I will accidentally touch
the wheel, and WHAM, I'm 20 lines or so from where I want to be. Since
I generally scroll with the scroll bar at the right of the window, it
would be great if I could simply turn off the wheel scroll!

- Bill

 

[MartinW]

Hi Bill,

One last try. If you go to control panel>mouse>wheel. How many
lines are set under 'Roll the wheel one notch to scroll'.
I set it to 1.

HTH
Martin

 

[cschiller1]

Um --- get a cheap mouse without the scroll wheel?

Craig

 

[MrBill]

This was turned off, I've turned it on and set it for slow (there is
no setting like you mentioned below". This did slow the scroll down
in Excel, so I'll try this for awhile and see how it goes.

Thanks, Bill

 

[MrBill]

I thought about that, but I've been using the wheel press as a double
click and like this a LOT!

- Bill

 

[MDubbelboer]

then buy a non-cheap three-wheel mouse! or crazy glue the scroll whee
so you can press it but it won't spin. that sounds like a fun project.

I agree that the third button press is wonderful, especially in
tabbed web browser. The scroll is also a fabulous feature and i
you're unable to use it propelry with your mouse it might be wort
investing in a new mouse.

I was looking for a default mouse driver that didn't have
scroll/third button and couldn't find one in the default drivers
Doesn't sound like that's what you'd want if you use it as a butto
though

 

[cschiller1]

Well, you know what the Stones say... You can't always get what you want...

Craig