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Touchpoint scrolling (holding the middle button and moving the touchpoint to scroll) does not seem to work in Office 2007.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Is there a fix?

I have no data on whether TouchPad scrolling works in office 2007.

Thanks,
Mike

I just tested it and it worked for me. I opened a document in Office Word 2007, and set my Trackpoint Properties to "Standard Scrolling." Hold down the center mouse button, and the track stick made the document scroll up/down.

You have to modify the TP4Table.dat and TP4scrol.dat in C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP with the following lines to make the Touchpad compatible with Office 2007.

; Office 2007 Scroll Fix
*,*,WINWORD.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
*,*,MSPUB.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
*,*,POWERPNT.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
*,*,OUTLOOK.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
*,*,ONENOTE.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
*,*,INFOPATH.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
*,*,GROOVE.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
*,*,EXCEL.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
*,*,MSACCESS.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9

Thanks, that did it.

Where does one find such a nugget of knowledge as this?

mikesugar wrote:Where does one find such a nugget of knowledge as this?

On forum.thinkpads.com! Where else?

Thanks arni!

You said it Gom!

And this also fixes the problem with iTunes scrolling and FeedDemon scrolling.

I'm wondering if anyone else thinks that this thread might be a suitable sticky?

I'm wondering if a line such as:

*,*,*,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9

would fix everything...

This is great! Thank you.

*,*,*,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9 : does nothing.

For windows vista, "notepad" application:

*,*,notepad.exe,*,*,*,Standard,1,9

I'm doing this the hard way... Changing both .dat files, rebooting, trying the app. In changing the .dat files, I'm only changing the method (Standard, WheelStd, etc) and the pass flag. For me, none of the methods worked for notepad when the 'pass' was set to 0.

Still working on "devenv.exe" (Visual Studio.NET 2005)

I wish there was an easier way to reload the .dat files without rebooting...

awesome tip. it's threads like these that make the hours browsing this forum worthwhile.

garyd9 wrote:*,*,*,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9 : does nothing.

For windows vista, "notepad" application:

*,*,notepad.exe,*,*,*,Standard,1,9

I'm doing this the hard way... Changing both .dat files, rebooting, trying the app. In changing the .dat files, I'm only changing the method (Standard, WheelStd, etc) and the pass flag. For me, none of the methods worked for notepad when the 'pass' was set to 0.

Still working on "devenv.exe" (Visual Studio.NET 2005)

I wish there was an easier way to reload the .dat files without rebooting...

Do you know where any general instructions for these settings could be found? I develop in a little-known tool call eDeveloper and have scroll-wheel issues in it. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

Andy wrote:Do you know where any general instructions for these settings could be found? I develop in a little-known tool call eDeveloper and have scroll-wheel issues in it. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

No idea. I had no luck getting the scrolling to work with Visual Studio2005 under Vista. However, it works fine (without hacks to the .dat file) under XP. Notepad works fine in XP as well without hacks. The hacks are still required for Office2007 under XP.

For your purpose, it might be easiest to just start simple: copy one of the office 2007 lines, and change the name of the .exe to whatever EXE your dev enviroment uses... and then just trial and error...

garyd9 wrote:

Andy wrote:Do you know where any general instructions for these settings could be found? I develop in a little-known tool call eDeveloper and have scroll-wheel issues in it. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

No idea. I had no luck getting the scrolling to work with Visual Studio2005 under Vista. However, it works fine (without hacks to the .dat file) under XP. Notepad works fine in XP as well without hacks. The hacks are still required for Office2007 under XP.

For your purpose, it might be easiest to just start simple: copy one of the office 2007 lines, and change the name of the .exe to whatever EXE your dev enviroment uses... and then just trial and error...

Thanks, that technique worked fine. Now I'm having new fun with the files. I bought a Lenovo USB Travel Keyboard which I use to try to improve the ergonomics of my new laptop which I set on a stand at the office to raise the screen. Lucky me, each time I plug the USB keyboard to a different port -- or maybe just each time I plug it in, I'm not sure -- the driver reinstalls itself thus helpfully overwriting those files for me.

I found the copies of those two files in the driver installation folder and updated them, too, so hopefully now my changes will stick.

Thanks again!

This works for vertical scrolling, but not horizontal on my machine.

Any ideas on how to enable horizontal scrolling, especially in Excel?

i think i saw an update for that on Lenovo.com oneday or somewhere. I dunno, i didn't install it but i know i definitely saw something to that effect.

well this might be exactly it but i'm sure you guys can dig it up:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... 67941.html

(New) Support scrolling on MS PowerPoint 2007
(New) Support scrolling on Google Picasa
(New) Support scrolling on Eudora version 5.2.1
Version 4.51
(New) Support scrolling on Netscape version 8.1.2
(New) Support scrolling on MS Excel 2007
(New) Support scrolling on MS Word 2007
Version 4.02

where in the file do you place these changes ?

How did you fix the scrolling issue? I have 2623-d6u Vista/2007 Scrolling only does NOT work in Word. Everything else ok

Oaklodge wrote:where in the file do you place these changes ?

Put it just below all those entries in the Pass 0 rules.

I am a dummy. Could you give me specific directions how to fix. DAT file will not open with adobe

ibm meister wrote:I am a dummy. Could you give me specific directions how to fix. DAT file will not open with adobe

You should use a text editor (like notepad) to open and edit the file. If you tried to doubleclick on the file and a Adobe program start you should open notepad then select File-Open on the menu and choose Files of type "All Files" and select the dat file. Or just drag and drop the file into notepad while notepad is open.
Then you can add the lines above somewhere in the dat file similar to the other programs that is already included in the dat file. It's pretty easy to see how it's done when you manage to open the file in a text editor.

I made the change to the files, but it still does not work in the preview pane of Outlook. Does anyone else have this issue even after modifying the files?

mcvosi wrote:I made the change to the files, but it still does not work in the preview pane of Outlook. Does anyone else have this issue even after modifying the files?

There is some default settings for outlook.exe in the TP4SCROL.DAT and TP4TABLE.DAT files. Did you insert the changes above or below the existing default settings for outlook.exe? Not sure if this is relevant, but i made sure the new lines is added above the existing settings for office applications and the scrolling is working fine in the preview pane on my computer.

Wiz wrote:

mcvosi wrote:I made the change to the files, but it still does not work in the preview pane of Outlook. Does anyone else have this issue even after modifying the files?

There is some default settings for outlook.exe in the TP4SCROL.DAT and TP4TABLE.DAT files. Did you insert the changes above or below the existing default settings for outlook.exe? Not sure if this is relevant, but i made sure the new lines is added above the existing settings for office applications and the scrolling is working fine in the preview pane on my computer.

I just appended it to the end of the file. I guess I will try moving it up and see how that works.

Edit: moving it up works. Thanks.

Bookmarking this.

Thanks for the great post, made my day today. Now, did anybody fix the issue of pulldown menus in IE7 under Vista not being scrollable? Works fine under XP and with the external mouse but not when using the middle button and the trackpoint (on a T42/T60 that is).

SHoTTa35 wrote:i think i saw an update for that on Lenovo.com oneday or somewhere. I dunno, i didn't install it but i know i definitely saw something to that effect.

well this might be exactly it but i'm sure you guys can dig it up:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... 67941.html

(New) Support scrolling on MS PowerPoint 2007
(New) Support scrolling on Google Picasa
(New) Support scrolling on Eudora version 5.2.1
Version 4.51
(New) Support scrolling on Netscape version 8.1.2
(New) Support scrolling on MS Excel 2007
(New) Support scrolling on MS Word 2007
Version 4.02

Thanks for the link. I downloaded that package, which is for the 64-bit version of XP, and the latest 32-bit package linked in the driver matrix for the T61, and opened them in WinRAR. Despite the readme, neither package contains anything for Excel 2007 that wasn't in my 6/2005 version, though the 64-bit (but not the 32-bit) has an entry for PowerPoint 2007. I checked both tp4scrol.dat and syntpenh.ini. If the readme isn't wrong, could the fix be in the code itself?

So, has anyone gotten horizontal scrolling to work for Excel 2007 using Standard scrolling? The *,* Pass 0 entry that worked for Excel 2003 doesn't do it on my T30.

UltraNav driver v.7.5.17.24, published 8/3/07, seems to scroll properly both vertically and horizontally, UNMODIFIED, with Office 2007.

Update: Outlook 2007 still requires a *.* entry to support scrolling of the left (folder) pane.

no worries guys, Lenono has a new version of drivers for Ultranav and suprise-suprise it has the 2007 fix