Scrolling Problem

[ovozeh]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC

This was posted a year ago and still no solution ?

Normally when clicking in an app's scroll bar "space", not on the scroll button itself, the scroll bar jumps to that position and the document jumps to the corresponding page. In Word 08 this is not happening. The scroll button jumps but the document remains in the same position until you slightly move the scroll button itself. Can't find a Preference to deal with this. Is this a bug, intended, am I missing something?

Thanks

 

[CyberTaz]

Well, if you say it was reported a year ago I'll certainly not dispute it
but I don't remember it being any kind of widespread issue. Even if it had
been universal at the time [my memory isn't always to be trusted implicitly
] that time frame precedes several key updates.

I'm not experiencing anything of the sort myself, although I'm running Tiger
on my G5 & Leopard on an Intel... But that isn't occurring on either system,
nor AFAIK have there been any recent reports. I'd have to say that it was
corrected in one of those updates or that there is something else at play
locally on your system. Have you tried running Word in a different User
Account to see if the same behavior occurs? Is it document-specific?

The first general tactics I'd suggest are that you make sure you have Office
fully updated. Additionally, it may improve performance to retrieve the OS X
Leopard 10.5.6 Combo Update even if you're already at that update level -
windowing operations are as much controlled by the OS as they are by the
applications. The Combos are more comprehensive than what Software Update
delivers. You can fetch it here along with any hardware/firmware updates:

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/

Also: You don't happen to be running Word in Spaces do you? If so you're
lucky to not be experiencing even worse behaviors.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac