Have Excel scroll better when there are large cells.
If there's a really tall or wide cell, Excel jumps to the edge of the cell when scrolling past that area. This is a big pain when, for example:
- trying to position a shape
- Trying to grab the edge of the row or column in order to resize it.
Excel should just scroll normally without jumping.
Oz du Soleil
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Thanks everyone for all of the passion about this suggestion! The number of votes has increased greatly in the last couple months and we’re taking notice! We’ve got a bunch of other Excel endpoints behaving this way already and we’re evaluating getting it done in the Windows versions sooner based on the number of votes it gets – so keep the votes coming!
Eric Patterson (Program Manager – MSFT)
690 comments
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Ryan
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Who breaks their own programs like this? This was never a problem until the later release of Excel. And then in such a stupid way. This is program design 0 it's so basic. You don't take control of the screen from the user. if you want to "add functionality" like this, make it an option. I can see maybe one occasion where I might have wanted excel to snap to a cell, I can think of millions where I want to see the data in the cell, not just what's in the beginning of it.
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HP
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Why has this issue still not been corrected since 2015?
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J
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hahaha, that shows what exactly the uservoice means to MS... second from the top by number of votes and yet you still collecting?
"so keep the votes coming!" Eric seriously? For what? It's like a managers contest on your floor ? Is there a score to beat?
It is YOU who ask us how to improve. Second on the list for desktop app, what else do You need? -
Roy
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Sure, AND for wherever the screens sits, for it to REMAIN sitting there when one releases the scroll bar or stops with the mouse wheel. Rather than snapping to the cell again.
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Benoit Provost
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Sorry how the scroll bars actually do a smooth scrolling when you move them manually. All we need is that the MOUSE wheel do the same! It can't be that hard to implement!
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Mark Gibb
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Oops, sorry PN. Geez, I totally missed that you were being satirical!
We're all in the same boat.
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PN
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@Mark: My comment was not meant to be offending. I use Excel every other day myself and could not live without it. When working with cells that have long texts the snappy scrolling disrupts the eye focus and effectively makes it impossible to see lines, which go outside of the screen.
Why is this item one of the top up-voted items on this page without any fix? -
Chris Pipe
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I got a headache
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There's only 2 possible explanations. Either MS Excel team WANTS this snap feature for some ungodly reason. Or, there is an insurmountable obstacle in their path. Either way, they need to tell us what it is so we can at least be sympathetic to the technical obstacle, or burn their building down because they actually want snapping cells.
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Anonymous
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Still not fixed after many years! Even a year after Eric Patterson responded. Why is this so difficult to implement? We just need one button in the View tab that can toggle "snap to cell" or "smooth scrolling".
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Mark Gibb
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A haiku for PN.
Self-centered person
Lacks ability to see
Others' point of view -
PN
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I just got an update to Windows. I finally have visual effects, when I move my mouse over the calendar in the bottom right corner. Don't know how I was living without it. This Excel thing is really just for people who don't have any hobbies. Who uses Excel in this day and age anyhow and needs to work with text in cells? Thanks Microsoft for spending time on developing this spotlight background illumination thing, that will help me do my job much better and have a true impact in this world [irony].
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Anonymous
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Holy **** I love how this is still an issue after so many years. This is supposed to be professional grade software (at least based on the price and userbase of the software). Completely unacceptable
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Anonymous
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As usual, Microsoft just doesn't care about their customers.
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Mitchell Kleckner
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@Elon Musk ROFL!! We will have the Cyber Truck faster than smooth scrolling in Excel!
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I got a headache
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@Elon Musk - LOL!
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Elon Musk
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just sayin
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Allanh
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@Nate - well said. I can even put up with scrolling that isn't totally smooth, but at least give me the option to disable the blasted snap-to-cell. Snap-to-cell becomes an epic fail when cell sizes are a couple lines or taller.
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Nate
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It's absurd that this request has been out there for so long and it is STILL a problem in 2020. It's another instance of Microsoft over engineering in order to provide the features they THINK we want without bothering to find out whether we (the user population) ACTUALLY want it. Snap to cell is fine as an OPTION, but smooth scrolling is absolutely critical to ease of use. I will start using Excel again when they add this feature.
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EricIsEvil
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@muddyscooter
That is beautiful
