Mouse Wheel moves spreadsheet Left-to-Right, not Up and Down

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A friend has somehow managed to switch the functionality of the mouse scroll wheel in Excel from moving the spreadsheet up and down to making it move right to left.

I found an old post from 2002 of someone with a similar problem and the only posted solution told him to check the mouse settings in Control Panel. I did this and could not find anything that would cause this.

I also checked MS Word and Internet Explorer and in both programs the mouse wheel moves the pages up and down as expected.

Does anyone know how Excel might have switched it to move left and right?

-----UPDATED------

The problem seems to have corrected itself overnight (and with a re-boot).

Still, why it happened is bugging me. Could it be some kind of hotkey that he accidentally hit?
 

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Could it be some kind of hotkey that he accidentally hit?

That's absolutely possible if he has a programmable keyboard/mouse contraption like my Logitech at work.

I was fubaring screen zoom for a while until I figured that one out (and it doesn't help that I'm just learning to type ;)). I fubar all kinds of things now... :unsure:

HTH,

Smitty

Down to QWEERTY - the 2-finger peck is the way to go... :LOL:
 
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