How to control focus when zooming?

[Knut Olsen-Solberg]

While drawing, it is convenient to zoom in and out e.g. to make sure lines are meeting properly. But clicking in the drawing area while zoomed in, is risky. If you miss the line/figure, what you do is placing the text cursor at the nearest possible spot. This is often at the top of the page, or at least above or under the drawing. I tried to select the arrow on the drawing toolbar, and this seemed to work, but only until some drawing object had been selected. After that, when clicking somewhere between the drawing objects, again focus was lost. Word has always been a bad drawing tool, but does someone have some advice?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Knut,

One method is to use Word's Windows=>Split and set
a higher zoom level for upclose inspection in one
Window while you edit 'zoomed out' in the other.

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While drawing, it is convenient to zoom in and out e.g. to make sure lines are meeting properly. But clicking in the drawing area
while zoomed in, is risky. If you miss the line/figure, what you do is placing the text cursor at the nearest possible spot. This is
often at the top of the page, or at least above or under the drawing. I tried to select the arrow on the drawing toolbar, and this
seemed to work, but only until some drawing object had been selected. After that, when clicking somewhere between the drawing
objects, again focus was lost. Word has always been a bad drawing tool, but does someone have some advice? >>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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[Knut Olsen-Solberg]

Say we have a split screen where screen1 show the close-up point where I want to work, and the screen2 show the entire drawing. If I happened to miss the line when clicking, and the content of screen1 disappears, I don't think it is possible to bring it back by using screen2. I can see the working point in screen2, but clicking here, does not affect screen1. So this does not help me...

Regards Knut

 

[Knut Olsen-Solberg]

Yes, this can sometimes be of some help. But you have to work in the zoomed-out window, and this can be very "sensitive" and tricky.

Regards Knut