Scroll Lock in Excel – how to turn it off and on, comments page 3

AD says:
2021-10-01 at 11:05 am

This was helpful. Thanks.

lhon says:
2021-09-26 at 4:59 am

it helps. thank you

Sandeep says:
2021-09-22 at 9:28 am

awesome article...thanks a lot

Zafeer says:
2021-09-17 at 7:51 pm

This is what I was looking from a long time.

Aishwarya says:
2021-08-11 at 4:23 pm

Thank you so much

John Okeke says:
2021-08-04 at 11:35 am

Thanks for this help, you are a life saver

Meydanoğlu says:
2021-07-27 at 12:32 pm

Thanks for this. Fn+C is rescuerer.

No longer Frustrated says:
2021-07-19 at 8:17 pm

Super-helpful - Thank you!

Toggle Scroll Lock on HP laptops
On an HP laptop, press the Fn + C key combination to turn Scroll Lock on and off.

Abis Cohen says:
2021-07-14 at 10:41 am

Thanks a lot for the help! I have Lenovo and although the Virtual Keyboard works, my combination is Fn + C! Again thanks.

JAISUKUTTY ABRAHAM says:
2022-02-04 at 2:21 pm

Thanku so much

Silvia Surdeanu says:
2021-07-06 at 2:17 pm

Thank youu!!!

Mullah Mullah says:
2021-07-05 at 6:46 am

Although i disabled "scrnlock" from excel but it didn't work. It worked via "On-Screen Keyboard". Thank you for your tutorial.

Kom says:
2021-06-24 at 5:31 am

Thanks much. You are a saviour.

Theresa says:
2021-05-27 at 4:31 pm

None of these options worked for me. On a Dell keyboard without a Scroll Lock or online Keyboard. Fn+S and Fn +C does absolutely nothing. This is a major pet peeve of mine... how do I fix it?

Umesh Patel says:
2021-04-24 at 5:09 am

Thanks for the learnings..

Aditya Chaturvedi says:
2021-04-22 at 9:28 am

Thank you so much for the help....

Jimmy says:
2021-04-19 at 2:48 am

Thank you!

Peter says:
2021-04-14 at 1:47 pm

This is amazing. The internet is virtually flooooooded (!!) with this massively pointless advise on how to unlock scroll lock using on-screen keyboard. I am truly amazed at this. How can sooooo many people deliberately choose to answer this wrong??

The problem is that everyone(!) ever googling this problem, has somehow accidentally clicked a keyboard combo that results in Scroll lock. But then why,....oh why...(!?), don't people talk about what the keyboard shortcut IS to toggle scroll lock? I don't want to NOT know how scroll lock is suddenly and accidentally enabled, but know how to go to OSK every time(!) to disable it... :))))))))))

Please just say:

You accidentally clicked this XYZ keyboard combo which is set as shortcut for enabling scroll lock. Please try to avoid the combo in the future, unless deliberate, and whenever it happens by accidnet, use keyboard shortvcut combo ABC to disable it.

Also, if you want to disable the keyboard shortcut combo for scroll lock entirely, then do this....!

Dwayne says:
2021-12-13 at 6:15 am

On ThinkPads it's function key + K.

Sarangi says:
2021-03-23 at 7:53 am

In DELL laptop use "Shift+F6"

Parmesh says:
2021-03-16 at 7:13 am

It worked and thanks a lot

Saikrishna says:
2021-03-16 at 6:25 am

Dear Author,

Thanks a lot for this informative Page. This is very helpful for me to unlock the Scroll on my Excel File.

Have a great day.

Rudy Williams says:
2021-01-22 at 6:11 pm

Thank you so much! Knowing how to turn off the scroll lock (on my tablet) in Excel saved me so much aggravation!

Rani says:
2021-01-09 at 2:44 pm

Thank You ...

KBT says:
2020-12-17 at 2:37 pm

THANK YOU!!

WGF says:
2020-12-15 at 10:01 pm

So I had to look this up to see if anyone knew why the stupid scroll lock keeps 'magically' turning on in Excel when my HP laptop has no key for it. Found the post above about using "Fn + C" to turn it off, (and technically 'on') and realized that the damn Fn key is next to my ctrl key. I use the keyboard shortcut commands 'ctrl C' and 'ctrl V' all the time to copy/paste in Excel so DUH, it looks like I probably fat fingered the Fn key instead of the ctrl when I went to do a copy and voila, you just magically scroll locked your keyboard.

The damn C key should have a little 'Scroll lock' printed on it if they are going to do that to people.

CWL says:
2020-11-26 at 4:36 am

Thank you so much for this! Especially adding the little trick on how scroll lock is triggered in Dell Laptops. :D You've been a wonderful guide :)

Sankara Bagham says:
2020-11-26 at 2:17 am

Super..! This article helped me

madonna says:
2020-10-28 at 4:24 am

thank you.. omg.. lifesaver

Graham says:
2020-10-06 at 8:30 am

What a LIFE SAVER!

Seemingly endless (10-minute) searching to resolve Dell laptop's scroll lock agony yielded no results. Then I found your solutions!

Fn + S-key

WhyTF doesn't Dell print this function on the damn S-key itself!?

Anyway...

Thanks for helping me get back to more productive things than tearing my hair out and wanting to break this computer over my knee.

chintan thakkar says:
2020-09-30 at 11:58 am

thnk you so much.

Robert says:
2020-08-11 at 4:37 am

thank you... no other help site worked. this is great

GURU says:
2020-07-28 at 3:45 pm

Yes, It works. Thanks a lot!

Pravinbhai says:
2020-07-27 at 9:32 am

Thank you

Jann says:
2020-06-23 at 3:13 am

Thank you very much. It works!

Gyanendra says:
2020-06-15 at 6:25 am

Thanks, it works

Saurabh Dwivedi says:
2020-06-10 at 6:33 pm

Seems different laptops have different hotkey shortcuts to handle scroll lock.
I am a dell user and fn+s worked for me.

Saravanavel says:
2020-09-26 at 8:14 am

Thanks Dude,

Anonymous says:
2020-06-02 at 11:00 am

This was just so muchhh helpful .. Thank you

Miles says:
2020-05-08 at 9:45 pm

thaaank you sooo much
it was so helpful

Prashant R. Kadrekar says:
2020-04-22 at 1:35 pm

Thanks a ton

Stephanie says:
2020-04-16 at 10:31 pm

Thank you! Very helpful!
Saved me a headache.

Sandy says:
2020-04-09 at 9:03 am

Thanks na ton!!

gowthami says:
2020-04-09 at 7:50 am

Hello Svetlana
The detailed description mentioned here was really very helpful.Thank you

Azizah says:
2020-04-09 at 6:02 am

Thanks a lotttt
help so much.
love,

Chris says:
2020-04-07 at 3:14 pm

THANK YOU

Brent says:
2020-03-19 at 7:50 pm

None of the options here worked for me. Tried the keyboard, didn't work, tried the different key combinations and none worked. Using an HP...help~!

Sady says:
2020-03-11 at 4:38 pm

Hi, my on screen keyboard returns an error, which I cannot resolve. I tried all the shortcuts mentioned above and none worked for me. I am using an Asus zenbook UX430U.
thank you.

Kuben says:
2020-02-28 at 8:38 am

Hello
I created a Pivot Chart on Excel together with a Slicer. I want the slicer to be functional after I protect the sheet. Problem is, when I untick the Lock option from within the slicer properties and then protect the sheet. The user can still move the Slicer around which I don't want. I would like the chart and the slicer to retain a fixed location on the grid and only for the slicer options to work.

Neil F says:
2020-02-25 at 7:43 pm

It appears from these comments that many different laptops have many different hotkey shortcuts to toogle scroll lock, and that's why so many of us are accidentally turning it on and can't figure out how to turn it off again.
On some Dell laptops, it is —
Fn + s

Kerry says:
2020-11-10 at 12:01 am

Thank you!!
Scotty B says:
2020-10-02 at 8:10 pm

Thank you yes it is Fn+s for Dell lappy with Excel 2016. Was driving me crazy trying to figure our how it was getting turned on
Gerrie says:
2020-07-31 at 2:00 pm

Thanks so much - you not only saved me much frustration but it is great to know how what caused the problem in the first place
Karen R Van horn says:
2020-04-25 at 7:30 pm

Thanks a lot.
TheBlueCat says:
2020-04-19 at 11:57 am

Thank you so much. There're a 1,000 sites telling me to use the virtual keyboard but not one single one answering how it got turned on by my cat in the first place (she certainly didn't do that).
You have saved my sanity!