Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated August 8, 2020)
This tip applies to Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
If you have worksheets that are very similar in nature, you may like to work with them side-by-side on the screen at the same time. This makes it easy to examine both worksheets for differences or for other reasons. It can be a bother, however, to scroll down at the same rate in both worksheets. First you have to scroll in one window, then in the other.
As with most tedious tasks, you can automate the process a bit. Consider the following macros:
Sub myScrollDown() ActiveWindow.SmallScroll Down:=1 ActiveWindow.ActivateNext ActiveWindow.SmallScroll Down:=1 ActiveWindow.ActivatePrevious End Sub
Sub myScrollUp() ActiveWindow.SmallScroll Up:=1 ActiveWindow.ActivateNext ActiveWindow.SmallScroll Up:=1 ActiveWindow.ActivatePrevious End Sub
If you add these to a workbook, and then assign them to a toolbar button or a shortcut key, you can scroll through both workbooks at the same rate. The SmallScroll method is used to move down one row at a time through a window. If you want to scroll a page at a time, simply replace all instances of SmallScroll with the LargeScroll method.
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2020-08-08 13:48:18
Ron S MVP
Web searches often find this "obsolete" article. It would not hurt to have a link to an updated version of this article, especially since the ribbon uses a synonym of simultaneous for the command, ie
Sychronous Scrolling (ribbon)
In View tab > Window group there are commands for “View Side by Side” and after that is enabled “Sychronous Scrolling”
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