Keeping the insertion point in the middle of the screen

[Elliott Roper]

How can I stop Word scrolling itself so the insertion point is in a
silly place. Like if I type a lot of paragraphs into an existing
document, the insertion point ends up at the very bottom of the screen
and I lose track of what I'm inserting in front of?

Or if I'm co-relating comments and footnotes with the body text, the
matching text is hard against the bottom or top of the window.

Does that make sense?

Even a macro to centre the insertion point in each of the main, comment
or footnote window would be an improvement.

 

[Clive Huggan]

G'day Elliott,

How can I stop Word scrolling itself so the insertion point is in a
silly place. Like if I type a lot of paragraphs into an existing
document, the insertion point ends up at the very bottom of the screen
and I lose track of what I'm inserting in front of?

Window menu -> New window, displaying the later text?

If dropping in a slab of pasted text, Command-Option-z? (but no suggestion
if you're typing).

Or if I'm co-relating comments and footnotes with the body text, the
matching text is hard against the bottom or top of the window.

Does that make sense?

Not the last one. (But than, I appreciate having the body text appear at
the top of the page when I click in footnote text that's on a different page
-- Normal view.)

Even a macro to centre the insertion point in each of the main, comment
or footnote window would be an improvement.

That would be good!

Cheers,

Clive

 

[Elliott Roper]

G'day Elliott, G'day Clive,



Not the last one. (But than, I appreciate having the body text appear at
the top of the page when I click in footnote text that's on a different page
-- Normal view.)

That's what I mean. It goes to the right page, then the footnote
reference is on the first visible line, instead of showing the context.
Footnote references are usually at the end of what causes them.

This is especially annoying if you are running a window for footnotes
and another for the body text, and using cmd-up to go back through the
footnotes. You then have to click on the body window (twice, and
slowly) before you can cmd-up to get to the beginning of the para that
contains the reference, and that sometimes causes the footnote window
to scroll, and that causes the user to eject the whole damn machine out
the nearest window.

That would be good!

Bah! you are no bloody help. I guess I'll have to write one myself.

 

[Clive Huggan]

That's what I mean. It goes to the right page, then the footnote
reference is on the first visible line, instead of showing the context.
Footnote references are usually at the end of what causes them.

This is especially annoying if you are running a window for footnotes
and another for the body text, and using cmd-up to go back through the
footnotes. You then have to click on the body window (twice, and
slowly) before you can cmd-up to get to the beginning of the para that
contains the reference, and that sometimes causes the footnote window
to scroll, and that causes the user to eject the whole damn machine out
the nearest window.

I'm with you now. My suggestion of a 2nd open window containing the doc is
no use, because you don't want to have to mouse / scroll it to show more
than the window you're working on. Nor is Command-Option-z any use. And so
on. Hmmm. A macro would be useful (let's see what the macro gurus say when
they come by) or, failing that (he said, full of empathy) putting it on the
MS wish-list ...

Bah! you are no bloody help. I guess I'll have to write one myself.

You have been exiled too long. You no longer recognise bleeding-heart Aussie
sympathy packaged in slap-your-shoulder cheerfulness. Tragic really ...

CH

 

[Elliott Roper]

(e-mail address removed) wrote on 23/2/04 1:29 AM:

You have been exiled too long. You no longer recognise bleeding-heart Aussie
sympathy packaged in slap-your-shoulder cheerfulness. Tragic really ...

You reckon I'm turning into a whingeing pom?

(quiet down the back of the class!)

 

[Klaus Linke]

You might play around with macros:
ActiveWindow.ScrollIntoView Selection.Range, True
ActiveWindow.SmallScroll Up:=3

But that really doesn't solve the basic problem.
It's not only a nuisance when working on footnotes and comments.
If you match more than one line with "Edit > Find", usually only the last
(possibly empty) line is shown at the top of the window. You don't see all
that's matched, much less any context before the match.

If the selection is cut off at the bottom of the screen, you could make Word
show the whole selection with Shift+Down, Shift+Up.
I have a macro that toggles the direction of the selection linked to the
shortcut F2,T:
Sub SelectionToggleActiveEnd()
With Selection
.StartIsActive = Not .StartIsActive
End With
End Sub
With the macro, I can display the whole Selection if it's cut off at the top
of the screen using F2, T, Shift+Up, Shift+Down.
Not terribly nice, but it involves only shortcuts I'm using pretty often
anyway.
Perhaps you could build a macro to center the selection (more or less) on
the screen, but it'd be an additional keyboard shortcut to remember.

I would prefer if the programmers would do something about it (meaning an
email to (e-mail address removed)).

Greetings,
Klaus

 

[Elliott Roper]

You might play around with macros:
ActiveWindow.ScrollIntoView Selection.Range, True
ActiveWindow.SmallScroll Up:=3

But that really doesn't solve the basic problem.
It's not only a nuisance when working on footnotes and comments.
If you match more than one line with "Edit > Find", usually only the last
(possibly empty) line is shown at the top of the window. You don't see all
that's matched, much less any context before the match.

If the selection is cut off at the bottom of the screen, you could make Word
show the whole selection with Shift+Down, Shift+Up.
I have a macro that toggles the direction of the selection linked to the
shortcut F2,T:
Sub SelectionToggleActiveEnd()
With Selection
.StartIsActive = Not .StartIsActive
End With
End Sub
With the macro, I can display the whole Selection if it's cut off at the top
of the screen using F2, T, Shift+Up, Shift+Down.
Not terribly nice, but it involves only shortcuts I'm using pretty often
anyway.
Perhaps you could build a macro to center the selection (more or less) on
the screen, but it'd be an additional keyboard shortcut to remember.

Thanks. Those are helpful. It seems like if I get something working it
is worth posting back here. ;-)

I would prefer if the programmers would do something about it (meaning an
email to (e-mail address removed)).

Yep, I have taken care of that with a little help from Beth ;-)