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[joefrench]

a movement sensitive field into which you can simply place your hand and move the mouse pointer around that way

Lewiy. Wouldn't that be what is now called a touchpad...such as on a laptop?

 

[Lewiy]

I was thinking something which required no contact with anything physical. Even touch pads can build up crud around the edges over time.

 

[joefrench]

Ahhh.....the "no touch" pad. Sneaky!

 

[TrippyTom]

which update fixed this? (what version)

 

[joefrench]

Couldn't really tell you right off hand. I'm currently at Excel 2003 SP3.

 

[Peter_SSs]

...having to take the ball out and scrape the garbage off of the internal wheels...
~JoeFrench

...and here I thought I was the only one doing that...

OK -- so what was everyone's preferred tool and/or SOP for this?

Well I used to just shove my finger in there and try to scrape it off with my fingernail.

But, the discussion also brings back another memory... In a former life I was a high school teacher and at one time had to teach some computer classes. It was a favourite past-time of some students (who seemed to have nothing better to do) to remove the mouse ball and take it with them at the end of the lesson, making the next class quite difficult!

My solution was to make a board with with holes in it ..
No of holes = No of computers in classroom,
Diameter of holes <(slightly) Diameter of Mouse Ball

At the start of each lesson, hand out the MB, at the end of the lesson makes sure "all holes full" before dismissing class. Quite funny to look back on , but pretty annoying at the time :x

 

[joefrench]

It was a favourite past-time of some students (who seemed to have nothing better to do) to remove the mouse ball and take it with them at the end of the lesson ~Peter_SSs

Definitely guilty of this.....