How to use inactive scroll with Excel?

I don't use Excel very often, but I do occasionally for work. What I would like to be able to do is have Excel be the active window while I scroll through my emails in the inactive window. Inactive scroll is turned on in the windows settings. I saw a bunch of older posts saying that there wasn't a fix in place, I was wondering if this is still the case.

I'm using Windows 10 with Excel 2016

Edit: all of my drivers are up to date.