Speed of scroll

[Yaz]

When depressing the scroll arrow, the scroll in Word 2008 accelerates rapidly and flies through the document. Any ideas on how I can get a uniform/reasonable scroll speed? I can use the scroll button on the top of my mouse, but I'm in the habit of using the up/down arrows.

 

[John McGhie]

Go into your System Preferences and play with your Keyboard "Key Repeat
Rate" and "Key Repeat Delay".

I suspect you might have the rate set a bit high ...

Of course, you could always use the old Shift/Select method that we learned
to use before Microsoft fixed the scrolling rate in Word 2004...

1) Click at the beginning of your selection

2) Scroll down by use the PAGE button or clicking below the thumb in the
vertical scroll bar.

3) Hold down the Shift key.

4) Click where you want the selection to end.

You knew all that, right?

Cheers

When depressing the scroll arrow, the scroll in Word 2008 accelerates rapidly
and flies through the document. Any ideas on how I can get a
uniform/reasonable scroll speed? I can use the scroll button on the top of my
mouse, but I'm in the habit of using the up/down arrows.

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[Yaz]

Thanks John - I tried the preferences suggestion, and while it does affect the keys on my keyboard, it doesn't seem to affect the vertical scroll bar. I also appreciate the suggestion about selecting large lengths of text. My problem is that I would like to scroll through a long document, and have the scroll speed constant, not accelerated, and I would even like to set the speed at which it scrolls. Any other suggestions would be welcome.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Hello Yaz,

I'm still running Word 2004, but when scrolling is too fast I either grab
the blue lozenge/thumb and move it slowly up/down, or I use the Page Up /
Page Down key.

Any port in a storm...

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from North America and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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[Yaz]

Thanks Clive, I do that too. It's not a problem on shorter documents, but I have some incredibly long documents that I need to scan. You can get a slower and constant scroll rate if you're selecting text as John has suggested, but I don't necessarily want to be selecting while I'm scanning a document. Your suggestions however, are much appreciated.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Yes, fully understood, Yaz -- I work on very long documents in most of my
work too. (Hmm... I wonder if it's worse in Word 2008 than Word 2004?)

Clive
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[CyberTaz]

Hi Yaz -

What type of mouse do you have? If it has a separate driver check in (System
Preferences) to see if there is a setting for "Accelerated Scrolling" or
some such thing. If so make sure it's turned Off - otherwise the longer you
scroll the faster it moves.

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

 

[Yaz]

Hi CyberTaz

Your suggestion is appreciated. I was using the Mighty Mouse that came with my new iMac, but it drove me mad, so I'm back to my wireless Logitech mouse. Both mice allow me to scroll manually using a wheel on the top, but I haven't installed any drivers for them, and I can't find an 'Accelerated Scrolling' setting anywhere in Finder's System preferences. My files are too long to scroll using a wheel, so a controllable scroll using the up/down arrows in the vertical scroll bar seems to be my only choice - it's just that I can't spot things visually when it accelerates so quickly.

 

[Phillip Jones]

A good universal USB Mouse/Trackpad/Game controller, Driver is called
USB OverDrive.

I've found that any mice regardless of Brand are slow compared to a PC
even with Apple's mouse/keyboard control Control Panel (System
Preferences). It does a better job of controlling Mousse Movements than
than the apple Control panel and has much fine adjustments.

And if you Mouse has other buttons you can map those buttons to do
special things that the apple control panels won't

Hi CyberTaz

Your suggestion is appreciated. I was using the Mighty Mouse that came with my new iMac, but it drove me mad, so I'm back to my wireless Logitech mouse. Both mice allow me to scroll manually using a wheel on the top, but I haven't installed any drivers for them, and I can't find an 'Accelerated Scrolling' setting anywhere in Finder's System preferences. My files are too long to scroll using a wheel, so a controllable scroll using the up/down arrows in the vertical scroll bar seems to be my only choice - it's just that I can't spot things visually when it accelerates so quickly.

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[Yaz]

Thanks Philip I will give it a try!