Thanks for the idea, William. I immediately reinstalled the IntelliMouse
software, added the tilde, and restarted. Still the weird long pause in
Word, yet all's well in the other programs.
I'm convinced it must be some Word extension, or a pref. I'm fishing around
in there now...
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Scott
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> From: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:00:01 -0800
> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Entourage-Talk Digest - 02/21/01
>
> Subject: re: OT: Word and a sluggish scroll wheel
>
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:12:44 -0700, "R. Scott Ohlgren"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Man, this one's getting to me:
>>
>> I have 9.04, Word 2001, and a IntelliMouse Explorer. Everything has been
>> hunky dory for months. Now, though, the scroll wheel isn't working well in
>> Word. There is a 2 second pause before a page starts to scroll up or down
>> using the IntelliMouse's wheel.
>>
>> This sluggishness only happens in Word, not Quark, Internet Explorer,
>> Entourage, or anything else.
>>
>> I just bought a new Kensington optical Pro in hopes of getting rid of the
>> problem, and I'm seeing the same darn thing.
>>
>> I've started with all extensions off (except the mouse software). I've
>> tested for viruses, rebuilt desktop, zapped pram, etc. I've trashed all the
>> Word prefs I could find, even completely rebuilding the Normal template from
>> scratch.
>>
>> The really weird thing is that when I first start Word each time, the scroll
>> wheel (on both mice) actually works quite well for about 15 seconds.
>>
>> Ideas?
>
> I had similar problems with a Logitech 2-button, center wheel mouse. Turned
> out that the fix is to put a tilda ~ before the name of the control panel,
> so that it stands at the bottom of the list and thus loads last. You might
> make a copy of the mouse control panel and try that.
> --
> William Howarth
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> http://www.princeton.edu/~howarth
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