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Make mouse scroll wheels work
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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How do I enable mouse scroll wheels (microsoft brand) to work in Adobe Acrobat and appleworks application? Step-by-step instructions will be helpful for a new mac user like me. Cheers
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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AFAIK, you don't.
Those apps are poorly ported to carbon and don't respect scrollwheels from any mice.
Sorry. 
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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Originally posted by Earth Mk. II:
AFAIK, you don't.
Those apps are poorly ported to carbon and don't respect scrollwheels from any mice.
Sorry.
He's right, however you can always (provided your mouse driver software allows you to create application-specific sets) workaround this by making a set for an application that doesn't support the scroll wheel, and setting the wheel's "scroll up" to "up arrow" and "scroll down" to "down arrow". It won't work quite as well (ie it'll work like scroll wheels work on Windows), but you can train yourself to not tell the difference.
(Edit: after actually *thinking* about this for a second, it will work well in Acrobat Reader, but it will be really stupid in AppleWorks. Sorry.)
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thank for clearing that up. 
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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Adobe is supposedly coming out with an upgrade that fixes the scrolling problem though. I don't know when it will be out though. I think someone else here said this summer.
The Appleworks stuff no one knows about. Rumor is that they are working on a Office killer, perhaps using a lot of StarOffice code. If so, it'll probably be out this fall/winter. Personally I find Appleworks to suck right now. I ended up springing for Office.
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Join Date: Aug 2000
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You can use USB Overdrive and set the scroll up to the up arrow key and the scroll down to the down arrow key. It's rather slow, however. What I do is (I have a 5 button mouse) use the scroll wheel to zoom in/out and use two buttons for page up and page down in Acrobat Reader. PDFs refresh too slowly for scrolling anyway.
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