Wheel Mouse and Power Point

[Gary Frankel]

To All,

Its been 7+ years, but I now need to do some work in
PowerPoint.

I opened a blank PowerPoint presentation and tried to use
my Logitech Optical Wheel (Corded) mouse to scroll up and
down the page in Normal, Outline, and Slide views. No
cigar, it did not work. The Ctrl+Wheel feature DID allowed
me to zoom in and out, but the wheel feature alone did not
allow me to scroll up and down the page.

I checked to be sure that I had the latest Logitech
drivers for the mouse and then I tried it a Microsoft
Intelli mouse. Nothing worked.

I am using PowerPoint Ver 9.0 from Office 2K. I have tried
this on both Win XP (at home) and Win 2000 NT (at work).

Any advice?

Thanks

Gary Frankel

 

[Sonia]

Scrolling only works if the amount of information/objects exceeds the available
space in the pane. If you are just opening a blank presentation, you only have
one slide in the slide pane and only one in the outline pane and the slide has
no objects on it.

How does the mouse work once you have a couple slides created with text, images
and other objects on the slides? You may need to go to View > Zoom > 200% to
see the scroll work within a particular slide.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
(Never test the depth of the water with both feet.)

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I opened a blank PowerPoint presentation and tried to use

my Logitech Optical Wheel (Corded) mouse to scroll up and
down the page in Normal, Outline, and Slide views. No
cigar, it did not work. The Ctrl+Wheel feature DID allowed
me to zoom in and out, but the wheel feature alone did not
allow me to scroll up and down the page.

Wheel mouse support in PPT is spotty (or weird, you might say)

If you click on the slide in the slide pane, then the mouse wheel will scroll
from one slide to the next in a multi-slide presentation, but it doesn't behave
exactly like the scrollbar does (ie, it won't scroll you down to a shape that's
off-screen because you're zoomed way in or it's off the slide).



--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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