Want to scroll through records in Access 2010 with mouse wheel

[chaconne]

I want to scroll through records in Access 2010 forms with the mouse scroll wheel.

Is there any way I can do this?

 

[CJ_London]

it should just work - providing the form has focus

 

[chaconne]

Unfortunately it does not work for me, even when the form does have focus (using normal Microsoft USB mouse).

I always used the mouse scroll wheel in Access 2000, but having upgraded, I find this does not work, and I have to use the PgUp and PgDn buttons, which is very much slower and more inconvenient.

 

[CJ_London]

hmm, it works for me OK. If you've upgraded from 2000, do you mean to have converted to 2010 or running a 2000 application in 2010? If the latter, try updating to 2010 (your original file will not be affected). There are a number of features which work differently in .accdb v .mdb. Since scrolling in 2003 and earlier needed a fix for it to work properly and this was fixed in 2007 and later, scrolling may well be one of them. - If you have the pre 2003 fix you may need to remove it

 

[chaconne]

My old Vista computer died three weeks ago, so I had to replace it with a Windows 7 one. I understood that Access 2000 would not work on the new computer and so I have to use Access 2010. I simply opened my Access 2000 database in Access 2010.

 

[CJ_London]

I thought 2000 would work on win 2007 but don't have experience myself.

However if you are using 2010 on a 2000 db, my comments still stand - save as an accdb

 

[chaconne]

I have done that. I have saved the 2000 database as an accdb. Unfortunately the scroll wheel still does not work.

 

[CJ_London]

OK - I'm about to go away for a week or so and don't have any more suggestions - I'll see if someone else can suggest something

 

[chaconne]

I am very grateful to you.

 

[JHB]

From Microsoft Support:
You cannot use the mouse wheel to scroll through records in an Access 2007 or Access 2010 form

There is something like a solution on the same side:
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2458709?wa=wsignin1.0
Here is also some solution, Allen Browne solutions use to work well:
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-70.html

 

[chaconne]

That is extremely helpful, thank you very much.

As a matter of interest, does Access 2013 also have this problem or have Microsoft enabled the scroll wheel again in Access 2013?