Word X: keyboard shortcut for line scrolling?

[Michel]

In Word X, is there a way of using the keyboard to scroll up or down a
few lines *without* moving the insertion point? I do know that the Up
and Down arrow keys scroll up and down, but they also move the cursor
up and down. I often find (after a Find command, say) that Word
realigns the document such that the insertion point has moved to the
top of the page. In order to move the document to see a few lines above
the cursor, I either need to use the mouse or the Up and Down arrows
twice (once to move up the pages, then to move down the cursor).

In Word 5.1 the * and + keys on the keypad fulfilled this function. Is
there a way of reviving them or reassigning them to the task I want?

Thanks for your help,
Michel

 

[Elliott Roper]

In Word X, is there a way of using the keyboard to scroll up or down a
few lines *without* moving the insertion point? I do know that the Up
and Down arrow keys scroll up and down, but they also move the cursor
up and down. I often find (after a Find command, say) that Word
realigns the document such that the insertion point has moved to the
top of the page. In order to move the document to see a few lines above
the cursor, I either need to use the mouse or the Up and Down arrows
twice (once to move up the pages, then to move down the cursor).

Isn't it incredibly annoying? What about the command pane and the font
and style panes, where it puts the found item just one line out of
sight? Or when you have split screen comments or footnotes and you want
to get back to the body text? Gaahhh!

I have fallen back to arrows up up down down that you mention. There
does not seem to be any command that you can assign a keystroke to, or
even put in a macro. The only way available is to reach for the rodent.

In Word 5.1 the * and + keys on the keypad fulfilled this function. Is
there a way of reviving them or reassigning them to the task I want?

5.1 To think I used to *hate* how bloated it was. It is about 10 years
since they canned it, and they still have not got back to how ba^h^h
good it was in some respects.

What I'd really like to see is a "scroll preference" where you can
specify how many lines from the top or bottom the cursor can get before
the window scrolls to keep your context in view. The current immutable
value of 0 is simply brain dead.

 

[JosypenkoMJ]

Maybe go back to the old no nosence, command rich text OS's, where real
text eidtors were written. I think the Vax EDT had a :

Set Scroll number_of_lines

command.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Maybe go back to the old no nosence, command rich text OS's, where real
text eidtors were written. I think the Vax EDT had a :

Set Scroll number_of_lines command.

further comment below. I can't bring myself to top-post. ;-)
Tell me about it! I'm a teco man from when Adam was in short pants. The
command was n,5:w where n was the 'scroll preference' I'm pretty sure
EDT and EVE had something similar as you say, but then I never
considered them to be real editors.{1}

Even emacs comes with n=2 by default. Every day I teach myself a little
more emacs and LaTeX for when Word collapses underneath its own bloat.
What, I ask, is the point of a WYSIWYG editor when YCPSWYGWMS
(You can't properly see what you get without manually scrolling)?

1. Nobody has decent editor wars on usenet any more.

 

[Clive Huggan]

I'm a teco man from when Adam was in short pants.

Elliott, that *is* a long time!

I only go back to when JC played half-back for Jerusalem... ;-)

[Other people, forgive us, we're Aussies! And since Elliott lives in the
UK, he needs some cultural reference points now and again.]

CH
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