VBE Mousewheel Scrolling?

[Guest]

Sorry for all the foolish questions, but it's great to have a place to ask questions where there's better than a slim hope of an ignorant response

I've been writing Excel VBA macros for some time now and the lack (or inconsistent implementation) of mousewheel scrolling has DRIVEN ME NUTS
Is there a hack/workaround/driver-install/mouse-type/prayer-for-divine-intervention that I can do/try/install/buy to give me mousewheel support

I'd be eternally grateful for any ideas

Thanks again
-Dustin Carter

 

[Paul B]

Dustin, try installing the latest driver for your mouse and see if that
helps, I have had good luck with Logtech brand mouse, works with everything
I have tried .

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Sorry for all the foolish questions, but it's great to have a place to ask

questions where there's better than a slim hope of an ignorant response.

I've been writing Excel VBA macros for some time now and the lack (or

inconsistent implementation) of mousewheel scrolling has DRIVEN ME NUTS.

Is there a

hack/workaround/driver-install/mouse-type/prayer-for-divine-intervention
that I can do/try/install/buy to give me mousewheel support?

 

[Chip Pearson]

Dustin,

I've found that installing version 4 of Intellimouse drivers (the
current version is 5) solves the problem.

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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com

Sorry for all the foolish questions, but it's great to have a

place to ask questions where there's better than a slim hope of
an ignorant response.

I've been writing Excel VBA macros for some time now and the

lack (or inconsistent implementation) of mousewheel scrolling has
DRIVEN ME NUTS.

Is there a

hack/workaround/driver-install/mouse-type/prayer-for-divine-inter
vention that I can do/try/install/buy to give me mousewheel
support?

 

[Guest]

Thanks guys, but no soup
I have one of the cheap Logitech Optical Wheel mice with the newest drivers from the Logitech site. I also installed Microsoft Intellipoint 4.23 to no avail. With the Intellipoint software does it matter which mouse type I select? At this point I'm just fishing
The fact that the mousewheel works in Excel also boggles my mind, why they couldn't implement the same features in the Excel VBE seems almost negligent. And...I'm sorry about this post. I searched for "mousewheel" instead of "mouse wheel" and got bogged down in all the posts about disabling the scroll wheel in Excel

Thanks again
- Dustin Carter

 

[Robin Hammond]

Does the Freewheel software disable all the other Logitech bells and
whistles?

I have a natty Logitech keyboard and have opted for the Intellipoint
drivers, which work for me with the mouse, but the result is I lose the
functionality on all the extra buttons on the keyboard when the Logitech
drivers are removed?

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Robin Hammond
www.enhanceddatasystems.com

OK, for everybody else, I found a solution.
I have a Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse. It's pretty generic.
I installed the latest Logitech Mouseware. No dice.
I installed MS Intellipoint software. Versions 5, 4, and 3.something. No dice.
I read in another post (I can't find it now) about Freewheel. It's a

free mouse wheel utility that looks pretty oldschool but *works*. I was
pretty amazed. Tried it with Office 97, 2000, and XP and Windows 2000 and
XP. Works under all of them. Of course I can't actually vouch for the
software and I'm not completely sure it's not spyware or something, but I've
had no problems in a week. Anyway, check it out at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2060/freewheel.html it's definitely
worth a look.

 

[Guest]

Heh
My keyboard doesn't have all the bells and whistles, so I'm really not sure about that. But... Freewheel works *with* the Logitech drivers in place. I believe, from digging through Freewheel's interface and reading a bit more on their site, that all the program does is catch when there's a mousewheel movement and scrolls a specified Window Class manually. It works perfectly for me and has no problems with other software that I've yet found, but I've only used it on my work computer which I only really use Excel and VBA.

Anyway, hope that helps
- Dustin Carter