Bug Alert: MouseWheel Event Broken in Access Version 2412

A critical bug in Microsoft Access version 2412 has rendered the mousewheel event non-functional, impacting form and report navigation.

Bug Description

The bug specifically affects the Form's MouseWheel event's two key arguments - Page and Count - which are meant to trigger when users scroll through forms or reports.

In version 2412 build 18324.20092 and subsequent builds, these arguments consistently return False for Page and 0 for Count, effectively breaking the mousewheel scrolling functionality that many Access applications rely on.

Current Workaround

The only known workaround as of today (2025-01-17) is to roll back to version 2411.

Roll-back to previous versions of Office

If an update for Microsoft 365 contains a relevant bug, we will inform you on AFo about workarounds and the planned fix date. But sometimes it is unavoidable to quickly roll-back such updates until the problem has been fixed by Microsoft.This article will show three different methods to roll back undesired updates. See methods 1 and 2 for all click-to-run (CTR) versions of Microsoft 365 and Office. For MSI versions, use method 3 below.PreparationsFollowing steps are necessary before rolling back

AccessForeverPeter Doering

Proper Fix

For the latest updates on this bug and its eventual fix, check out the detailed tracking page at Access Forever:

Mousewheel Event Bug in Version 2412

There have been several reports of the form / report mousewheel event no longer working starting with Access version 2412 build 18324.20092.

AccessForeverColin Riddington

Acknowledgements

• Portions of this article's body generated with the help of ChatGPT