Type osk (shortcut for On-Screen Keyboard) in the open input box and hit It’ll open the On-Screen Keyboard.Ĥ.
#HOW TO TURN OFF SCROLL LOCK ON MY KEYBOARD WINDOWS#
Press Windows + R together on the keyboard to open the Run window.Now, click on the On– Screen Keyboard option to display.Start typing On-Screen Keyboard, windows will suggest the available options.Click the Windows button or simply press it on the keyboard.To display the On-Screen Keyboard, follow the simple steps. If the scroll lock is on, the ScrLk button of the keyboard will be displayed as active (shown in the screenshot below). We can also check the scroll lock status with the help of the On-Screen Keyboard. Open the On-Screen Keyboard to Check the Scroll Lock Status To show the scroll lock status on the status bar, just click the Scroll Lock option to make it checked. This is the reason that the status bar is not showing any information about the scroll lock status. But the left side of the Scroll Lock option is not checked. It means the scroll lock is active in this worksheet. In the following screenshot, we can see that the right side of the Scroll Lock option displays On status. To configure the status bar, we need to right-click on it. It might happen when the status bar is not configured to show the scroll lock status. In case you cannot navigate through the cells of the worksheet, moreover, the status bar displays nothing about the scroll lock status. Configure the Status Bar If Scroll Lock Status Is Not Displaying The status bar shows the scroll l ock status if it is on. We can customize the status bar to set which information to show on it. The status barin Excel provides useful information about the active worksheet. When the scroll lock is on, the active cell remains fixed while scrolling through the worksheet.Ĭheck If Scroll Lock is Active or Not 1. Using the navigation arrows, we can scroll through rows (up and down) and columns (left and right) instead of navigating through the cells. We can navigate from one cell to another in any direction using the arrow keys.īut when the scroll lock option is turned on, it allows us to scroll through the whole worksheet. In general, the scroll lock feature remains deactivated by default. The scroll lock feature in Excel controls the way of navigation through the worksheet.