If there’s ever been a program feature that made no sense whatsoever to me, it is the impact that the scroll lock key has on navigation in Microsoft Excel.

Hummmm… Did I say that strongly enough? Probably not, but I’m not going to write those words…

We all know about the Num Lock key and how it locks the keyboard’s keypad into number mode. If you have a keyboard with an attached numeric keypad, the keys default to scroll mode (arrow up, left, down, right, Home, End, etc.). If you press the NumLock key, the keypad locks into numeric mode.

The Scroll Lock key (Scroll Lk) works differently. According to Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org), the Scroll Lock key is left over from the DOS days. It’s functionality is set by the program your using — and most programs don’t even acknowledge the existance of the Scroll Lock key.

Excel, unfortunately, is one of the few that do.

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