Navigate through Excel’s columns horizontally and boost your productivity while creating various databases with this intuitive add-in.
- Excel Horizontal Scroll Add-In
- Version :1.2.2014
- License :Freeware
- OS :Windows All
- Publisher :T800 Productions
Excel Horizontal Scroll Add-In Description
Generally speaking, most programs available nowadays include a nice feature that enable you to scroll with the mouse pad horizontally or vertically. Unfortunately, as many users noticed, this is a completely absent feature from Excel.
Excel Horizontal Scroll Add-In is a small utility that brings this handy function to the popular database manager.
Horizontal scroll options for Excel
As the name suggests, this is a small add-in that enables you to use horizontal scrolling while managing databases in Excel. Not only can you activate it whenever you want by keeping the Shift key pressed, but, since it works in the background, it integrates into the workbook seamlessly.
Some users might argue that you can simply click the mouse wheel to move it in any direction you want. Alternatively, you can use a mouse that includes a tilt-wheel function, so you can scroll both vertically and horizontally.
While both are options to consider, the truth is that they can become rather quirky and irritating especially when you want to view several columns in a single row of data.
In fact, it does not create a separate menu in the toolbar and does not have an interface of its own. On a side note, if you want to disable it because it is distracting you in any way, then you can access the Add-in window from Excel’s Options.
It is functional, but it lacks everything else
Granted, being able to scroll horizontally can be useful in various situations. For instance,
this can be convenient for the times when you are re-checking databases featuring a lot of letter characters, as you can considerably reduce the time you need to go through each column.
However, the add-in could really use an interface that enables you to configure the hotkey or create a combination of keys to activate this function. Not to mention that there is always the possibility that the utility is incompatible with certain hardware.
It can be useful in certain situations
In the event you are used to activating horizontal scrolling by clicking the mouse wheel and keeping Shift pressed, then you could find Excel Horizontal Scroll Add-In overall helpful when managing databases.