I have no scroll bar in my Font menu. Is that normal?

[Nicolas]

title pretty much says it all..I've had this imac for a while now, and
i've rarely used word v.x, but now i have to use it for a long
document, and it is killing me to have to wait for the selector to
scroll all the way down sometimes...I have no quick bar (yeah yeah, I
am a ex-windows guy), I just have the little arrow/triangle at the
bottom to use to scroll...it's killing me...what have i done wrong in
the settings (cant find a option for it) or is this normal?

Thanks guys/girls

 

[Elliott Roper]

title pretty much says it all..I've had this imac for a while now, and
i've rarely used word v.x, but now i have to use it for a long
document, and it is killing me to have to wait for the selector to
scroll all the way down sometimes...I have no quick bar (yeah yeah, I
am a ex-windows guy), I just have the little arrow/triangle at the
bottom to use to scroll...it's killing me...what have i done wrong in
the settings (cant find a option for it) or is this normal?

Thanks guys/girls

That's normal.
Here is a couple of tips to lessen the pain.
Turn off WYSIWYG font menu

Use the font thing in the formatting palette instead. All the fonts
currently in your document are listed above the bar at the top.

Make more use of styles. If you are working on a long document, I'd
strongly recommend you grab Clive Huggan's "Bend Word to Your WIll"
from the Mactopia wwwbsite before you make a bigger mess of it than you
need to, Any time you change fonts manually you are not using Word
properly IMHO.

Word used to have decent keyboard shortcuts for changing fonts, but
they broke that way back in Word 6 when it went all Windowsy. It has
never fully recovered.

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Word used to have decent keyboard shortcuts for changing fonts, but
they broke that way back in Word 6 when it went all Windowsy. It has
never fully recovered.

Speaking of which, Elliott, you might find this account entertaining:
<http://weblogs.asp.net/chris_pratley/archive/2004/04/27/120944.aspx>

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Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>

 

[Elliott Roper]

Speaking of which, Elliott, you might find this account entertaining:
<http://weblogs.asp.net/chris_pratley/archive/2004/04/27/120944.aspx>

Heh! What do you think drove that comment to the fore? Pratley seems to
be disarmingly honest. And fair. Note how he let some pretty virulent
anti-vole to remain on his blog. I'm actually impressed by MS letting
him get away with it. Someone in the MacBU needs to lend him a
Powerbook for a few weeks.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Why would they lend him one? Last time I saw him, he was using one!

Chris may be the boss of Word (well, he *is* the boss of Word...) but he has
no set religion...

Cheers

Heh! What do you think drove that comment to the fore? Pratley seems to
be disarmingly honest. And fair. Note how he let some pretty virulent
anti-vole to remain on his blog. I'm actually impressed by MS letting
him get away with it. Someone in the MacBU needs to lend him a
Powerbook for a few weeks.

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