Are you having a hard time scrolling on Excel? This issue may be affecting your productivity. Worry not, the fixes are really easy and it will be solved in no time.
Microsoft Excel has certain features that disable scrolling. Features like “Freeze panes” and “IntelliMouse” restrict you from scrolling. Your Excel worksheet might not respond to scrolling. Or, when you utilize the mouse wheel, it might zoom instead of scrolling.
We’ve compiled all possible causes for this issue along with its fixes.
Why Is My Mouse Scroll Not Working in Excel?
The most common cause of this issue is frozen panes. “Freeze panes” is a feature on Microsoft excel. you may freeze certain rows and columns so that they will be visible while you work on other columns. While the rows and columns are frozen, you cannot scroll through them. You might have turned this on unintentionally.
However, there are other factors that might have caused your mouse scroll to not work in Excel. The causes are listed below:
How to Fix Mouse Scroll Not Working in Excel?
This issue is pretty common among Excel users. Especially, thosewho just started using Excel. Fortunately, the fixes are fairly easy, so you don’t need to worry.
Before going through the other fixes, you may verify if any dialog boxes are open. When you expand a tool from the ribbon, a new window opens with additional settings. The window is called a dialog box.
You might have opened a dialog box and forgot to close it. When a dialog box is open, you cannot scroll. So, ensure you have closed all the other Excel windows.
If that is not the case for you, you may try the other fixes:
You might have trouble scrolling through your worksheet because you unintentionally turned on “freeze panes”. To turn this off, you may follow these steps:
“Zoom on roll with IntelliMouse” is a feature on Excel that when turned on shrinks and enlarges Excel cells with the mouse wheel. When this is turned on, your scroll wheel is used for changing the size of Excel cells. To turn this off, follow these steps:
If you see a double line between columns, it indicates that the columns are hidden. It is possible that you have hidden all the columns. And, that might be the reason why you may’t scroll. To unhide the columns, you can follow these steps:
The keyboard may also be responsible for this issue. You might be holding your shift key or your Ctrl key. Holding the shift key disables scrolling and holding the Ctrl key changes the function of the mouse wheel to zooming instead of scrolling. The keys might have gotten stuck. In this case, you need to clean your keyboard.
