Inactive window scrolling not working with excel

Inactive window scrolling:

With windows 10 there is a new feature called inactive window scrolling, which means if your mouse hovers over a window you can scroll on it, without it needing to be the active window.

Problem:

This feature is pretty great, but it does not work with Microsoft excel. If excel has the focus, you scroll in excel wherever your mouse is.
So most of the time when I am working with excel and browsing in the web at the same time I almost always accidentally scroll my excel table away.

Is there some kind of setting or feature or workaround to fix the problem?
Thanks in advance

Answer

It appears as though Microsoft addressed this issue in the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17040 for PC

We fixed an issue where inactive window scrolling wouldn’t work if Excel 2016 was in focus.

For those of us not subscribed to Insider Preview Builds, we must wait until Microsoft deems this ready for release. At the time of the original response, the public release is Version 1709.

Public release is now Version 1803, and this appears to be fixed!