[monkeybradders]

Hi,

Im in IT support and have been flummoxed by one of my users. He thinks he used to be able to click into a word document on, say, paragraph 2 then scroll down the document using either the mouse wheel or the side scroll bars but get back to where he left the cursor in paragraph 2 by clicking on the arrow keys?

I know that if you start typing then it jumps back to the cursor position but I have never heard of it happening when an arrow key is pressed.

I'm pretty sure this doesn't work but has anyone else heard of this "feature" ?

thanks

[Peter T. Daniels]

If you scroll with the scroll bar or the mouse wheel and don't click
in the new location, then pressing an arrow key will indeed take you
to (one character left, right, above, or below) where you left the
cursor -- UNLESS you have the stupid "Smart Cursoring" turned on in
your Word Options (I don't recall such a thing in Word2003) -- "smart
cursoring" causes the cursor to accompany the scrolling, meaning you
can't even scroll to select a passage of text that's more than one
screen long!

Go to Office button Word Options Advanced Editing (first bunch)
and uncheck "Use smart cursoring" (seventh one down).

On Dec 23, 4:18*am, monkeybradders monkeybradders.
wrote:
Hi,

Im in IT support and have been flummoxed by one of my users. He thinks
he used to be able to click into a word document on, say, paragraph 2
then scroll down the document using either the mouse wheel or the side
scroll bars but get back to where he left the cursor in paragraph 2 by
clicking on the arrow keys?

I know that if you start typing then it jumps back to the cursor
position but I have never heard of it happening when an arrow key is
pressed.

I'm pretty sure this doesn't work but has anyone else heard of this
"feature" ?

thanks

--
monkeybradders

[monkeybradders]

Originally Posted by Peter T. Daniels

If you scroll with the scroll bar or the mouse wheel and don't click
in the new location, then pressing an arrow key will indeed take you
to (one character left, right, above, or below) where you left the
cursor -- UNLESS you have the stupid "Smart Cursoring" turned on in
your Word Options (I don't recall such a thing in Word2003) -- "smart
cursoring" causes the cursor to accompany the scrolling, meaning you
can't even scroll to select a passage of text that's more than one
screen long!

Go to Office button Word Options Advanced Editing (first bunch)
and uncheck "Use smart cursoring" (seventh one down).

On Dec 23, 4:18*am, monkeybradders monkeybradders.
wrote:
Hi,

Im in IT support and have been flummoxed by one of my users. He thinks
he used to be able to click into a word document on, say, paragraph 2
then scroll down the document using either the mouse wheel or the side
scroll bars but get back to where he left the cursor in paragraph 2 by
clicking on the arrow keys?

I know that if you start typing then it jumps back to the cursor
position but I have never heard of it happening when an arrow key is
pressed.

I'm pretty sure this doesn't work but has anyone else heard of this
"feature" ?

thanks

--
monkeybradders

It works ! thanks so much.

Happy Christmas