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    Excel 2016 maintains focus when cursor moves to another monitor.

    I have Office 365 with Office 2016. I also use the third party utility called Display Fusion. DF has a setting to allow the cursor focus to follow the cursor from monitor to monitor and so that scrolling can be accomplished on the monitor where the cursor is without having to first establish focus. It is very handy and one also gets used to it without thinking about it. Every program that I have installed works with this feature, including Quickbooks, Quicken, my browser and all of the Office 2016 programs (are they called apps now) including Outlook, Word, and One Note. But the only program/app that maintains the focus when the cursor is moved to another monitor is Excel 2016; out of habit I move the cursor to another monitor and begin scrolling, but the Excel spreadsheet displayed on the first monitor is where the scrolling occurs. I have to first click on the second monitor display to move the focus to the second monitor, which I realize that is what most people have to do that don't have the cursor focus utility, or at least that is what I think is what is normal behavior. Is there something about Excel that functions differently than the other Office 2016 and/or is there a built in way to accomplish this desired behavior either in Windows 10 or in Office 2016? I hope I have described this issue well enough that someone out there will have a clue and offer to me a solution or further knowledge.
    My machine is a Dell XPS8700 with Windows 10 Home 64bit fully updated and with 12GB of Ram and an Intel Core i7 processor in a three monitor setup (the reason for using Display Fusion as it allows for multiple and changing wallpapers unique to each monitor) and a subscription to Office 365 and Office 2016 if all of that might help track down the issue. Thanks to anyone that sees this and thinks that they might have an idea or two.
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    Re: Excel 2016 maintains focus when cursor moves to another monitor.

    Hey OldMtMan and welcome to the forum,

    How do you have your Mouse set in Display Fusion?
    https://www.displayfusion.com/Features/MouseManagement/

    Also -
    Because you are using 3 monitors and using Windows 10, how do you have your Display Setting set? You can't be duplicating your display but must be extending it, right?

    Lastly - this might just be the way Excel works. If you click in a Cell and start creating a formula, you can click on different sheets or workbooks and the formula is still in the cell. Perhaps you really do need to click in a cell to get the focus to go the other screen..??
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    Re: Excel 2016 maintains focus when cursor moves to another monitor.

    Thanks for trying to help me. Answer to your first question:
    From my original post "DF has a setting to allow the cursor focus to follow the cursor from monitor to monitor
    and so that scrolling can be accomplished on the monitor where the cursor is without having to first establish focus."
    So, I thought that would indicate how I have it set in Display Fusion or else I wouldn't have this issue to begin with.

    And yes , since I have different programs displayed on the 3 monitors, I am extending the display so that each monitor
    has different programs. I don't think my problem would exist if I wasn't extending them.

    So, now on to actually addressing what the issue is, I appreciate your trying to help, but saying that "this might
    just be the way Excel works" is what I suspect but I'm looking for a definitive answer not a "might" response. Since all
    of the other Office 2016 apps allow this utility to work properly, I am trying to find out why Excel 2016 does not. I'm not
    sure I am following your comment about clicking in a cell to create a formula and how that relates to the issue. That is not
    what I am doing; I already have the spreadsheets designed and all formulas are in place and I am simply adding data to a cell
    and then viewing the spreadsheet, which gives Excel the cursor focus. I am not clicking on different sheets or workbooks
    that would be displayed on the same monitor and experiencing this issue. I am moving the cursor to a different monitor where,
    say my browser, is already displayed, and immediately attempting to scroll on that display but when I do, the spreadsheet
    displayed on the first monitor scrolls. And it only happens with Excel. If Word is on monitor 1 and I move the cursor to
    monitor 2, scrolling happens on monitor 2.

    Again, I appreciate your efforts to try and help but I hope that someone that really knows why this happens and if there is a
    solution happens along, as it appears that you and I are not sure.

    On another note regarding this forum and reply box, how does one get what I am entering to wrap the text to the next line?
    To post this I had to manually do it for each line; I couldn't find anything in all of the icons at the top of the box to
    accomplish this. I registered here a while ago but haven't been here in some time. Thanks in advance.

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    Re: Excel 2016 maintains focus when cursor moves to another monitor.

    Hello,

    I guess, without having DF installed and trying this myself, you are correct as I can only suggest and not really know.

    As for the word wrapping of text I'm typing, it will wrap based on the width of the window. Example: If I drag the browser to the left side of my screen it only takes half the width of the monitor. The text will wrap on that width. If you don't maximize the window and change the width, the text will wrap. Give that a try. I hope this isn't a problem only with DF installed.

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