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bottom scrolling is a pain in the neck..

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i spent quite a lot of effort ergonomically configuring my home & office desks. i am quite tall, and need to raise the monitors to be comfortable. (scene settting over)

then i find myself spending all day staring at the bottom inch of the damn screen. as wordprocessors scroll the page as you get to the bottom. i want to be able to set this, so my pages scroll from about 1/3 of the screen (not just the page within the Word edit window). this would let me see the last sentence for context, while not bending forward all the time.

apologies if Word already does this, but i cant find it if it does....

—	mymus, May 10 2002

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Try an optical mouse with center scroll wheel - mine has a push-button feature which can be set to scroll manually or on it's own. It's *nifty*

—	thumbwax, May 10 2002

I don't understand the complaint. [thumbwax], since you seem to, could you explain it?

—	phoenix, May 10 2002

phoenix, when you create a document, the cursor moves downwards as you type. when your cursor hits the "bottom" of the screen, a new line appears for you to type onto. you therefore spend your time looking at the last inch as you type.
i hope this helps.
thumb, i have a wireless mouse with a centre scroll wheel. but i havent managed to make it top scroll. what make is yours ?

—	mymus, May 10 2002

I agree this is an irritant with word processors too. I want to be able to keep my current line in the center and have the document move.

Scroll lock _used_ to do this back in the old DOS days with some word proc packages. (Someone one here is still using PC Write, I can't remember who now... but whoever you are, does scroll lock work like this for it?)

—	waugsqueke, May 10 2002

Oh, thanks. Why not just make the program window half as tall as the desktop? You'll still be at the bottom of the window but in the middle of the monitor.

—	phoenix, May 10 2002

phoenix, that works for pure entry. but sometimes when editing, you want to be able to see the following paragraph as well as the preceding line.

—	mymus, May 13 2002

Fair enough. I hadn't thought of that. Word will let you split the screen into two sections, but I don't know of a way to keep the two sections syncronized (so when you scroll in one window, the other window scrolls as well). If I find something, I'll post a link.

—	phoenix, May 13 2002

Paste the following macro into your VBA macro editor, then use Tools > Customize > Keyboard to attach to a key (I use Alt PgDn). Replace the "" codes with carriage returns.

Sub ScrollPageDown() WordBasic.ScreenUpdating 0 startpos = WordBasic.GetSelStartPos() endpos = WordBasic.GetSelEndPos() WordBasic.PageDown 2 WordBasic.SetSelRange startpos, endpos WordBasic.LineUp 1 WordBasic.SetSelRange startpos, endpos WordBasic.VLine 1 WordBasic.ScreenUpdating 1 End Sub

—	sah, Apr 06 2004

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