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billc36375532
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May 13, 2020
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Mouse Autoscrolling

  • May 13, 2020
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I want to be able to click the mouse wheel and then be able to scroll a document.  I can click the mouse wheel and as long as I hold it down it will scroll.  Is there anyway to get Adobe Acrobat Reader DC to allow for the scroll to occur once you release the wheel.

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    Michael10659
    Participant
    June 6, 2025

    Having the same issues with Autoscrolling with Adobe PDF.  I did find however you can open the Document in CUTEPDF and the Auto works beautifully.

    Adobe is not going to fix this issue it seems.

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    Kathleen33221
    Participating Frequently
    June 7, 2025

    Hi Ob,

     

    Five years on from Bill's original post, and still Adobe have done absolutely nothing at all about this!!, just unbelievable!!! Yes, it is not just CutePDF which has the auto scrolling facility, every single other PDF reader, EXCEPT ADOBE READER, of course, has that facility, which is what makes Adobe appear so unbelievably archaic and totally out of touch! Thanks for your post though 😀.

      mikehoopes
      mikehoopes
      Participant
      September 29, 2025

      +1 
      If the basic function is not working, you need to uncheck "Make hand tool use mouse wheel zooming" in Edit > Preferences > General.

      However, it still requires one to hold the mouse wheel click down to keep the function active, which is noticeably more effortful than a simple toggle.  This is especially important for passive reading/navigating functions that may take a long time.

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      Kathleen33221
      Participating Frequently
      October 29, 2023

      Hi Bill,

      I have always used just one simple click and release of the mouse wheel, then just moving your mouse up and down to navigate up and down the page, stopping and starting exactly where I want on the page instantly, and moving up and down the page at exactly the speed I want. I am always shocked when I find someone else who doesn't use this all the time, it is just, brilliant!! It works on every single website, web page, everywhere in Microsoft Office, absolutely, every, single, thing, EXCEPT Adobe reader! Truly unbelievable that they STILL have done nothing at all about it!, it is such an unbelievably useful function, I use it constantly on every web page/whatever I am using. I can see that you submitted one of those request forms to Adobe 3 1/2 years ago now, in May 2020, and they have done nothing at all about it, just wondering if anyone else knows any way to get around this problem at all. Thanks so much for raising this problem Bill.

      ls_rbls
      Community Expert
      ls_rblsCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 26, 2020

      ++UPDATE

       

      I just discovered that the mouse autoscrolling  feature works in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC but partially.

       

      When I am editing extensive lines of code in a field, this mouse autoscroll feature seems to only work in the  javascript editing windows, like for example, in the custom calculation script section of a field object.

       

      So like you suspected, I agree that this is  a bug.

       

       

      ls_rbls
      Community Expert
      ls_rblsCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      May 18, 2020

      ++UPDATE

       

      I was able to get it to work in all of my Micrososft Office applications and in all of  my installed web browsers. Acrobat still shows the same inability.

       

       

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      billc36375532Author
      Participating Frequently
      May 16, 2020

      Your suggestion works but it is difficult to control.  All of my other software allows me to use the mouse wheel and control the speed and stop the scroll by moving the mouse.  Why does Adobe not follow what appears to be somesort of a standard?

       

      I can use the mouse wheel and as long as I hold it down the document scrolls.  I can move the mouse and the document will speed up or slow down.  When I hold the mouse wheel down a hand icon appears with four arrows.  When I release the mouse wheel the scrolling stops.  To me this is better and easier to control than the automatic scrolling. 

       

      I have a Logitech mouse.  I discovered that if I use the Logitech software and select the mouse wheel to auto scroll than Adobe works as I want.  The problem is some of my other software stops working, not sure why.  I tried a Dell mouse, which came with the PC, it performs the same way, but does not have the software to control the mouse wheel. 

       

      I could be wrong but I don't think Adobe has always acted this way.

        ls_rbls
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        ls_rblsCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        May 16, 2020

        That is interesting. Can you share the exact model of those mice?

         

        I would like to check on something. I'm curious now.

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        billc36375532Author
        Participating Frequently
        May 17, 2020

        The logitech mouse models are M325 and M510.  The M325 is on a laptop and the M510 is on my desktop.  Both exibit the same thing.

         

        The Dell mouse is a model J66000 and is on my desktop.

         

        The Logitech mouse can use Logitech software to change the function of the buttons.  The mouse wheel can be assigned to scroll.  If I do that Adobe works, but my email program stops working.  Not sure why since other programs work regardless of the software setting.

         

        All three mice act the same way if I don't use the Logitech software to assign a function to the mouse wheel.

         

        In the Adobe software I use the setting "Fit to width scrolling".

         

        If I hold down the mouse wheel a hand icon appears with four arrows.  As long as I hold the button down I can move the mouse and document will scroll.  Depending on how far I move the mouse I can control the speed and stop the scroll.  Other software acts the same way but I do not have to hold the mouse wheel down.  With other software I can cancel the operation by clicking a button or moving the mouse wheel.

          ls_rbls
          Community Expert
          ls_rblsCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          May 16, 2020

          Hi,

           

          Hit CTRL+SHIFT+H in your keyboard. This will activate the Automatically Scrolling feature. The you can use the mouse wheel to scroll up or down or pause the automatically scrolling of the document pages.

           

          Use the up and down arrow keys to control how fast or how slow you want the pages to scroll.  

           

          Pressing the "-" (minus sign key) once  by itself will reverse the scrolling backup and pressing it again to scroll back down.

           

          Hit the "Esc" key to stop the automatically scrolling.

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