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Is it possible to "freeze" the cursor position in the middle of apage?
Ideally, I would like to have the cursor's position frozen in the
middle of a page, and as I edit/type the document, the pages will scroll up line by line instead of the cursor moving down. Does that make sense? I don't know if it's possible, and I haven't found much luck searching the newsgroups using "cursor frozen fixed position," etc. The reason why is because I am deleting several lines at a time in a huge document, and when the cursor reaches the bottom of the page, I have to use the mouse to scroll back up to give me enough room to see what I'm deleting. I am using Word 2003 on Windows XP. Thanks! |
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Is it possible to "freeze" the cursor position in the middle of a page?
I don't know of anything that will automatically keep the focus in the
middle of the screen, which appears to be what you want. To avoid having to use the mouse to recenter, my own solution was to assign the mouse scrolling actions for up/down to keyboard combinations. For me... the most logical assignments were to Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Up and Down. So... when I press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Down, it's the same as if I'd clicked the bottom of the vertical scroll bar. When I press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Up, it's the same as if I'd clicked the top of the vertical scroll bar. Hence, when my cursor reaches the bottom of the window, I can press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Down to nudge the current cursor location up to where I want it. Similarly, if I'm at the top of the window, I can press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Up to nudge the cursor location back down to the middle of the window. I enabled this by creating two simple macros, and then assigning them to the respective keystrokes: For Up: Public Sub MAIN() WordBasic.VLine -1 End Sub For Down: Public Sub MAIN() WordBasic.VLine 1 End Sub If you know it's always going to take 10 nudges, you could replace the 1 with 10. Hope this helps... -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "ehamiter" wrote in message ... Ideally, I would like to have the cursor's position frozen in the middle of a page, and as I edit/type the document, the pages will scroll up line by line instead of the cursor moving down. Does that make sense? I don't know if it's possible, and I haven't found much luck searching the newsgroups using "cursor frozen fixed position," etc. The reason why is because I am deleting several lines at a time in a huge document, and when the cursor reaches the bottom of the page, I have to use the mouse to scroll back up to give me enough room to see what I'm deleting. I am using Word 2003 on Windows XP. Thanks! |
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Is it possible to "freeze" the cursor position in the middle of apage?
On Jan 16, 8:05 pm, "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:
I don't know of anything that will automatically keep the focus in the middle of the screen, which appears to be what you want. To avoid having to use the mouse to recenter, my own solution was to assign the mouse scrolling actions for up/down to keyboard combinations. For me... the most logical assignments were to Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Up and Down. So... when I press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Down, it's the same as if I'd clicked the bottom of the vertical scroll bar. When I press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Up, it's the same as if I'd clicked the top of the vertical scroll bar. Hence, when my cursor reaches the bottom of the window, I can press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Down to nudge the current cursor location up to where I want it. Similarly, if I'm at the top of the window, I can press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Up to nudge the cursor location back down to the middle of the window. I enabled this by creating two simple macros, and then assigning them to the respective keystrokes: For Up: Public Sub MAIN() WordBasic.VLine -1 End Sub For Down: Public Sub MAIN() WordBasic.VLine 1 End Sub If you know it's always going to take 10 nudges, you could replace the 1 with 10. Hope this helps... -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog:http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web:http://www.herbtyson.com"ehamiter" wrote in message ... Ideally, I would like to have the cursor's position frozen in the middle of a page, and as I edit/type the document, the pages will scroll up line by line instead of the cursor moving down. Does that make sense? I don't know if it's possible, and I haven't found much luck searching the newsgroups using "cursor frozen fixed position," etc. The reason why is because I am deleting several lines at a time in a huge document, and when the cursor reaches the bottom of the page, I have to use the mouse to scroll back up to give me enough room to see what I'm deleting. I am using Word 2003 on Windows XP. Thanks! Yes, ideally having the focus always stay on one line in the center would be great, but the workaround you posted will do the job just fine. Thanks very much! Eric |
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