Did you know...?

If Microsoft Office 2007 has been installed on your PC, you may be experiencing a small, but irritating lack of mouse scrolling wheel capability.

Fortunately, after talking (in real time!) to one of the college's computer buffs, I found out how to restore the scrolling function to your mouse, there’s several steps involved, so read them over carefully:

First, make sure all Office programs, Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint, Word, are closed.

• Click on Start
• Click Settings
• Click Control Panel
• Click on Mouse, you’ll get a small window titled Mouse Properties
• Click on the tab marked Wheel at the top
• Click the button marked Exceptions
• Click the button marked Add
• Click on Browse
  

Now comes the tricky part, so read these steps carefully:

1. Click the down arrow at the top, you’ll most likely see the words “My Computer”
2. Double click on the “IBM (C)” drive
3. Double click “Program Files”
4. Double click “Microsoft Office”
5. Double click “Office 12”
6. Double click on “OUTLOOK.EXE”
7. Click on Open
   

At this point, you can choose the other Office applications you’d like to have the mouse scrolling work in, so repeat the process from step #1, & the window should go automatically to Office 12 again. Add the following:

• WINWORD.EXE
• EXCEL.EXE
  
• POWERPT.EXE
  

Click OK for all the small windows & try out those individual programs, the mouse should work now.