Enabling mouse wheel scrolling

Scrolling up and down a document using the mouse wheel can be a problem in FrameMaker. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I have identical FrameMaker setups at work and at home, and scrolling works at home but not here at work. I finally got fed up with this and decided to sort it out. Unfortunately, updating the driver for the Intellimouse did not fix the problem.

However, a good solution is to install KatMouse by Eduard Hiti:

http://eduard.hiti.bei.t-online.de/

This changes the scrolling functionality, making the scroll wheel apply to whichever application happens to be under the mouse pointer - including FrameMaker windows. This sounds odd, but once you start using it it's really useful - especially in structured FrameMaker, where you can scroll the Structure View window without losing the focus in the document window. When I'm using FrameMaker I have the Structure View window permanently displayed on a second monitor, so I find this behaviour particularly useful.