I'm creating a dynamic chart using an Excel form control -- the scrollbar -- and the way this works is exactly as described on http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/animation-interaction-and-dynamic-excel-charts/ (towards the bottom). I have a chart of data, and a column called "Chart source" that just does an index match based on the scrollbar's linked number. When you click through the scrollbar, it updates the chart source column and thus the chart.
The problem I'm having is that when I click the scrollbar, it keeps scrolling all the way, to either the left or the right, instead of moving incrementally one by one. The number counts through 1 by 1, but it goes all the way as if I were continuously clicking the button. This behavior stops in its tracks if I click and then move the mouse out of the arrow area. I've tried messing with the form control's "incremental change" and "page change" options to no avail. Things that do work: I can click and drag the scrollbar itself to the place I want it. I can type a new number in the cell linked to the scrollbar, and the scrollbar will jump to the right position.
Does anyone have an idea of how to fix this bug?
EDIT: I figured out the problem. This is a bug in Excel. If you are in "Page Break Preview" mode instead of "Normal" mode, this behavior will happen. Switching back to "Normal" mode (the first of the three icons in the bottom right next to the zoom) fixes this behavior.
This problem occurs when calculations that result from the changed value that is controlled by the scroll bar, takes too long. Changing to Manual calculation mode resolves the problem (although of course is not necessarily desirable in all cases)...
(see http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/slider-bar-continues-increment-mouse-hovers-over-arrow-t3064239.html)
The same has been happening to me, but my excel sheet was in "normal" mode.I believe the original answer is correct. I noticed this happens when I press a combination of keys or my hand lightly brushes across bottom pf laptop. Very annoying. Finally I sit and wait for the scrolling to stop then click back to top of sheet.
Possible answer... I have the problem with one type of worksheet, but only when another worksheet with VBA code is open. A fix might be, in the first worksheet:
File\Options\Advanced\Formulas\un-check Enable Multi-Threaded Calculation
I figured out the problem. This is a bug in Excel. If you are in "Page Break Preview" mode instead of "Normal" mode, this behavior will happen. Switching back to "Normal" mode (the first of the three icons in the bottom right next to the zoom)
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I've some issues with OLEObjects and recordsets...
I create some controls on the fly in my code.
I prepare them, I fill them, and then I use the data collected from them to run a query on an AS400 (adodb).
When I get the data back I've this issue :
my oleobjects on top of the worksheet start acting weird: they seem normal, but when I click on one of them, the Left property seems to change. While holding the mouse button down I see the control twice, once where it should be, and at another position offset to the right (let's call it the buggy version). If my pointer leaves the control it returns to its normal position.
The globality of the control reacts to my mouse click for offsetting the control to the right and showing its "Buggy version", but the normal behaviour (Click is the only event I manage) only happens if I click on the Buggy Version... Each time I run the query the buggy controls are more and more offset to the right.
Here are some pictures :
Start: all is ok
First query: behaviour after the first run when I click on the left part of the button:
Second query: same, but the offset is greater:
When I don't click on the controls they are like in the first picture.
This affects all my controls except the first 3 which are at left = 0
I hope I was clear and that someone has an idea about what is happening.
I'm wondering if you guys have an idea on how to handle this problem.
Process:
First i iterate trough this collection. If the input value is the same as the item of the grid box it will stop and select this item.
View of SAP GridBox
Note that every spy mode will select EVERYTHING and the only way to actually read this is with SAP GrixBox.
The problem here is that i need to click the small grey square on the left of the selected Notification. I cannot select it with any hotkey or with a spy mode.
Small grey square MANUALLY selected
My idea was to use capture an highlighted item with the Region mode and then move 5px to the left. But this does not seem to work ...
Any suggestion are welcome!
If I recall correctly the shortcut for selecting an entire row in Sap Grid is Shift + Space. You need to have a cell selected first, though.
Context
I want the user to review some selections they made earlier. So I display some text describing each selection on a separate control in a userform. Some of the text on the controls is long, extending beyond the width of the control. This is fine; I just want the user to be able to see all of the text without being able to edit it. To do this, I use textboxes that are "Locked" (i.e. not editable) but "Enabled" (i.e. selectable). This way, they can just click and either mouse-drag or arrow-key over to scroll through all the text.
Problem
The (small, aesthetic) problem is that when the user clicks in one of the textboxes, they get a blinking cursor, which is misleading as that is normally associated with an editable textbox.
Possible solutions
Ideally, there would be some way of removing the blinking cursor, while still allowing selection but not edition. However, I'm open to other alternatives that don't have to do with changing the width, or having a scrollbar (the textbox is too short to fit a scrollbar). The best alternative I have so far is changing the background color to a gray to make it slightly more clear that it's not editable.
P.S. I'm very familiar with VBA, so if that's part of the solution, I'm cool with that.
Thanks all!
I had a similar issue, and solved it by using these instructions to create a hidden textbox that the cursor automatically appeared in (invisible to the user).
This, what seems to be a glitch, has annoyed me for years. Some ActiveX controls, when placed on the worksheet, do odd things when clicked. In the picture below, there is no code whatsoever and Label1 is disabled, but when Label1 is clicked, Label2 disappears. I've also seen dark labels turn white upon clicking. The only way I know of to prevent this would be to use subclassing/hooking to intercept and cancel wm_mousedown messages when over the label but that is a ton of work for such a simple goal. Does anybody out there have a simple solution for this?
*Edit: I believe what's happening is the z-order/z-index brings the clicked control to the top. But if there's a way to prevent this I would love to know how.
Here is an example of the background color changing when a label is clicked. See the label with the caption "Original Value:"
Items should stay in the order they were laid out in, I have many projects with overlapping menus, shapes and labels and they all stay in the layer order they are organised in, the only time they move is if you programatically recreate them to update menues etc, then you need to write code to put them all back in order starting from the bottom up. If they are not staying in order then there is a problem and not a design flaw.
I must work with nightmare Excel files. (I didn't create them, I just have to work with them).
They were so big (more than 50 big columns and 100 big rows) then I must scroll up/down and use "<" and ">" buttons to scroll left and right. When I scroll around, Excel always jumps to the next column or row. This make me crazy!
Can I develop a plugin or add-in to make Excel just scroll smoothly, like web browsers do? If so, please give me some resource or just some keyword to learn how to do it.
Another tip: when you click on Scroll lock on your keyboard, this will change the way your arrows keys will work.
Instead of moving from cell to cell, it will move the screen.
Yet, as Issun said, you cannot change Excel and AFAIK, you cannot "split" a cell when scrolling.
Furthermore, you can also change the number of rows that will scroll in the Windows Control Panel.
I'm sorry to tell you but the snapping to the top of a cell when you scroll is a design choice by Microsoft that you simply cannot get around while working within Excel. You can middle click your mouse to enable smooth preview zoom with the mouse, but once you click the program, it will snap back.
Instead of looking for a plug-in, you should look for a different program to run the .xls files to work on them. Perhaps even something as simple as opening the document in Google docs might allow you to scroll normally.
That being said, if you are having the problem of the cells being so big that when you scroll down it skips over some cells, assign either a command button or keyboard shortcut to this macro:
Sub DownOne()
ActiveWindow.SmallScroll Down:=1
End Sub
I have used this on several occasions due to Excel skipping cells because of their size. The reason is that the mouse "single scroll down" is by default set to Down:=3
You might be able to map this macro to a mouse wheel scroll event, but I believe you need to add a .dll to use that event (ref: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837910)
Click down on scroll wheel (middle) of mouse (remember not turn, but click down). This will produce unique four way arrow. Now drag mouse up or down (or even sideways, left or right) and you will get slow smooth scroll.
Well, this is an extremely old thread, but I was having the same problem today.
Try going into your Mouse Settings in Control Panel and set your Wheel to Scroll 1 line at at a time.. I have some rows that are merged, and it was frustrating the hell out of me how quickly it would scroll past them. Turns out, I had my Wheel set to scroll 3 lines at a time (default I think).
Took me forever to figure it out (felt like an idiot once I did).
Note - You'll want to go back and set it back to 3 lines when you're done in Excel because it makes it painfully slow to scroll in your web browser.
Old thread I know, but I found a work around (if this is a repeat suggestion, sorry). Leave Column A alone, with "normal" sized cells. You can hide this column if you don't want to see it. Put all your contents in the remaining columns as you normally would and merge the content over several rows. Since column A is normal sized, you will get "smooth scrolling".
I had the same problem until I upgraded by office from 2014 to 2017. Now I have office 2017 [version 15.33 (170409)] and I can scroll by pixels using Mouse as well as Laptop trackpad. I am using MacOS Sierra version 10 operating system.