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[Redwood Elf]

I downloaded the game today along with the tutorial (and the old version so I could run the tutorial) - once I loaded into the new version, I found a couple of problems I haven't been able to figure out:

1: You can't always select dig areas with the mouse anymore. It appears to work in some areas of the screen but not in others.
2: (IMPORTANT) Holding down alt and using the arrow keys appears to no longer be the method of scrolling up and down in menus. I haven't been able to find any hotkeys that WILL scroll up and down in the menus, which means I cannot access the help files, grow any crop but the first one in the list for each season, or do anything that requires scrolling in a submenu.

[Nil Eyeglazed]

Hmm.

1) I haven't seen any problems with this myself, although, granted, I don't do it a lot.  Some things to be aware of: you can't designate tiles near the edge (like 5 or fewer tiles away, I think); when outdoors, it defaults to designate trees, rather than designate mine, which obviously won't do anything inside a mountain, and with hilly environs, "outdoors" can involve a lot of rock; when moving the mouse quickly, designation spots can be missed (the mouse is quicker than the brain!  erm cpu).

2) I didn't realize that was ever a single way to scroll up and down like that!  There are three ways to scroll, depending on the menu: up/down arrows; pgup/pgdn keys; numpad +/- keys.  None of these take modifiers like alt or ctrl, and maybe numlock needs to be in some particular state.  The precise key you need depends on the menu, which I think we all agree sucks, so if one set of keys doesn't work to scroll the menu, try the next.  Not sure about how laptop peeps play DF.

I hope that helps.  Good luck with your game!  If you have more problems, or if this doesn't help, let us know.  Hopefully with the precise menu/situation/whatever you're having trouble with, because there are bound to be special situations that won't immediately spring to mind.