Re:You Suck at Excel (2015) [video]
by DonHopkins on Friday December 20, 2019 @08:19PM
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It would be nice if the mouse wheel clutch (i.e. Logitech Master 3) controlled that, so you could feel each row snap by individually when you wanted to, or toggle the clutch button or spin the wheel fast to scroll smoothly.
Nice idea. I wonder what would be involved in making that happen.
Numbers (on Mac) has smooth scrolling.
Numbers is a weird Quantrix/Improv inspired spreadsheet. Are people using it like Excel?
I use it to view spreadsheets offline in my Mac, but use no other fancy features.
Maybe not the same thing, but Excel's row scrolling with the arrow keys was driving me nuts until I discovered this setting: Options -> Advanced -> Display -> 'Disable hardware graphics acceleration'. After I checked that box to disable it, scrolling was much better.
I hate how you can't undo in a single document. You can only undo across all of your open documents.
I hate how Excel breaks the concept of Alt-Tab.
I hate how Excel breaks your clipboard on any action.
The #1 thing here is the lack of smooth scrolling, scrolling by row actually gives me motion sickness whenever I use Excel (and that's not a problem I have with anything else I use).
You can find a legion of people begging for at least a setting to end snapping to rows here: https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-...
If anyone from MS is reading this, this seems like such a tiny change but it would really make a lot of people happy. In the meantime, could anyone recommend a smooth scrolling spreadsheet program? I haven't used the alternatives too much.