MS Word 2000 scrolling run away on XPsp2

[JAG625MJOY]

When I have more than one MS Word document open and use the arrow key to
scroll down on occasion I get a run-away effect that temporary locks Word and
produces a blue bar in place of the task bar at the bottom of the screen. The
scroll runs automatically to the bottom of the page and may then after
attempting to get control back run automatically to the top of the page. Both
xp and word 2000 are up to date in upgrades as is the system with Norton
antivirus.

Any ideas?

 

[Clive Huggan]

Dear [whoever],

Although some people here operate cross-platform, this is a Mac newsgroup
and, given that your problem is XP-specific, you'd be better off posting at,
say, microsoft.public.word.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
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[JAG625MJOY]

Dear [whoever],

Although some people here operate cross-platform, this is a Mac newsgroup
and, given that your problem is XP-specific, you'd be better off posting at,
say, microsoft.public.word.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
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When I have more than one MS Word document open and use the arrow key to
scroll down on occasion I get a run-away effect that temporary locks Word and
produces a blue bar in place of the task bar at the bottom of the screen. The
scroll runs automatically to the bottom of the page and may then after
attempting to get control back run automatically to the top of the page. Both
xp and word 2000 are up to date in upgrades as is the system with Norton
antivirus.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Microsoft is very proud of the fact that this BLOODY STUPID bug will
*finally* be fixed in Word 2007

It occurred because whoever wrote the code back in the days of Word 6 (for
the PC...) was too lazy to call the system timer: they wrote an algorithm
that depended on the CPU clock...

This worked very well for an Intel 80386 running at 8.77 MHz.

On an Intel P4 EE clocked at 3,800,000 MHz, the scrolling is "a little
quick"

In the meantime, use Shift + Select. Select the beginning of what you want,
then scroll down using t he "Thumb" in the scroll bar to get to the end,
then hold down the Shift key and click in the text to complete the
selection.

Cheers

When I have more than one MS Word document open and use the arrow key to
scroll down on occasion I get a run-away effect that temporary locks Word and
produces a blue bar in place of the task bar at the bottom of the screen. The
scroll runs automatically to the bottom of the page and may then after
attempting to get control back run automatically to the top of the page. Both
xp and word 2000 are up to date in upgrades as is the system with Norton
antivirus.

Any ideas?

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John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410