Click Applications and then type "Script Editor." When you see Script Editor appear, double-click it.ģ.
To force your Mac to work around the Scroll Lock issue, you can create an AppleScript and run it when you use Excel.Ģ. If you have a Mac, you want have a Scroll Lock key on your keyboard or the ability to disable such a key from an on-screen keyboard.
© Dave Johnson Solve the Scroll Lock problem on a Mac with AppleScript If it's enabled, the key will be highlighted.Ĥ. On the right side of the keyboard, you should see ScrLk. The on-screen keyboard will pop up on your display.ģ. When you see On-Screen Keyboard appear in search results, click it.
Click Start and type "on screen keyboard."Ģ.
The solution? Turn it off with the Windows on-screen keyboard.ġ. But your Scroll Lock might still be enabled. If you have a relatively modern keyboard, or a keyboard with fewer than about 104 keys, you might not have a Scroll Lock key. Disable Scroll Lock with the On-Screen Windows keyboard If it has an illuminated status light, press the key to turn off the light. The fix? Look at your keyboard and see if you can find a Scroll Lock key (which might be abbreviated, such as SCRLK). This key - an artifact of an earlier time in personal computing - is rarely, if ever, used anymore, and it's little more than an attractive nuisance that gets enabled by accident and makes your computer behave in unexpected ways. Most of the time, if your arrow keys aren't moving the cursor from cell to cell, the fix is as simple as disabling the Scroll Lock key on your keyboard. Turn off Scroll Lock on your keyboard © Dave Johnson If the arrow keys aren't working in Excel - or at least not working the way they usually do - here are a few troubleshooting steps to get them working correctly again. Sometimes, though, you might notice that the arrow keys don't behave the way you expect. Even if you're mostly a mouse user, you probably use the keyboard's arrow keys, for example, to quickly zoom around spreadsheets, going from cell to cell by pressing the up, down, left, and right arrow keys. Microsoft Excel is one of those programs that encourages you to make frequent use of the keyboard.