I waste more time changing numbers back after I set them. The work we do is very precise and sometimes this will happen without my noticing, then I have to go back, fix the size, redo placement and so on. One day a job may print on thousands of glasses and ship to the customer costing the company many thousands of dollars and possibly my job.

Please move this closer to the top of your To Do list so we don't have to wait years for it to be fixed.

Thank you.

How do I turn off number scrolling in Illustrator? Example: I open the properties palette, and type a number into the width window, now by scrolling I can increase or decrease that number. I want to turn that scrolling feature off. How do I do it?

I love the scroll feature on the mouse, I use it all the time. The problem is, when I’m resizing a logo using the transform panel, the slightest tap of the mouse will make it huge, tiny or skitter it off the page. Is there a way to limit the scroll feature so it doesn’t change the values in the panels? I waste so much time hitting undo or redoing my work it gets very frustrating.

Strange... Does it still behave like this for you? If yes — can you please record a short video showing this?

What the **** is this hover-scrolling Adobe? In an application like illustrator, seriously?

I often accidentally change my point size when trying to scroll past properties.

Please offer a setting to disable this scroll feature.

Seven years people have been hating hover scrolling. How about a fix, Adobe?

Yes, it must be disabled. Apple magic mouse is very sensitive. One finger touch changes the value rapidly.

This is a feature that irritates on a daily basis. You can input precise measurements for type size/leading or a stroke width, or dimensions of an object, then all is lost as you scroll away while accidentally having your cursor somewhere close to a measurement field. It's not a feature I've ever felt the need to use intentionally and it serves no purpose. Please at least allow the option to toggle on/off in Preferences.

This is a critical feature, a total nightmare, and I don't understand why nobody is addressing this! It seems that this is a problem happening with the Apple Magic Mouse only; I may switch to another mouse.

TOTALLY. THIS. ALL. THE. TIME. I don't want to disable mouse scrolling because I use finger scrolling to move around the canvas. I just want to stop messing up the numbers by accidental touch (daily occurrence), which impact my creative output. This is by far the most annoying and unsophisticated CC function that no illustrator user has asked for to begin with.

Given 6 years of no regard to this problem, I have a serious doubt if this uservoice feedback system is even working?

it's 2023 and Adobe didn't do anything about it. !??!

-- You can enable or disable mouse scroll with command Line (here in applescript):

do shell script "defaults write com.apple.AppleMultitouchMouse MouseVerticalScroll -int 1" -- enable
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.AppleMultitouchMouse MouseVerticalScroll -int 0" -- disable

-- and then ask the system to activate the new settings :
do shell script "/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SystemAdministration.framework/Resources/activateSettings -u"

-- the next step is to save as a script in the script menu or automate this with an applet in background (idle handler)

Agree, this is very frustrating, particularly if you have a magic mouse. An option to turn this off would be very beneficial.

Peter, while I share the thought it should be a toggle-able feature, I wonder how exactly you can accidentally adjust a value using the kind of mouse you mention. I have a physical wheel and I am on Windows, which I know behaves somewhat differently. The video doesn't really explains it, it looks normal to me, I do this intentionally almost always.

Currently any field that takes entry of numerical value can be adjusted by scrolling. However for those of us which have mouses with free-wheel or touch-style scrolling this tends to lead to accidental value adjustment.
An option in the preferences to disable to feature would be useful.

Arguably these are almost-always fields where scrubber-like value adjustment is not helpful.

Yes, absolute nightmare with an Apple Magic Mouse. Please offer a preference to disable.

This is definitely an annoying bug. And, the worst part about it is that it can't be undone with a single undo. Illustrator logs every little increment as an action, so it takes a multitude of undos to return it to its pre-scrolled state. Ugh.

Has this been fixed yet? I would really like stop this from happening!

Definitely been an issue for at least a few years. Please provide an option to disable scrolling through all fields in Illustrator windows or no longer make this the default action when you hover your mouse about a field. Just the slightest movement of your index finger will start scrolling through numbers.

This is really problematic when you are clicking to type in a field to change the unit to another value. For example: if I type in a new height value for a selected object and then hit enter on the keyboard the cursor disappears. So if your next movement is to move the mouse and you scroll just the slightest bit, the values start to rapidly scroll up or down depending on which way you slightly moved your finger. When you are doing critical size adjustments or distortion this is annoying and sometimes subtle enough where you don't see the issue occur.