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From: abcd on 3 May 2010 11:30 Hi all, - is there a way to dock the Search mask somewhere? It keeps moving around the screen at every search. This makes repetitive searches more time consuming. - is there a way to horizontally lock the view of a document? If I am looking at a document that needs to be zoomed in to make it readable, when I am looking at zoomed in tables the showed portion of the text keeps moving left and right and I need to reposition it to the wanted horizontal section every time that the cursor focus changes. Time consuming too. :-(
From: Jay Freedman on 3 May 2010 13:55 To do repeated searches, you can use the dialog to find the first occurrence; then close the dialog, and use the double-down-arrow button at the bottom of the vertical scroll bar (or its keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+PageDown) to find the remaining occurrences. This button (and the double-up-arrow above it, with the shortcut Ctrl+PageUp) is technically a Browse button. The "Browse target" is automatically set to the next (or previous) Find occurrence when you use the Find dialog. To change it back to its usual target of Next Page (and Previous Page) or any of the other possible targets, click the circle button between the double-arrow buttons and choose from the gallery. I don't think there's any perfect solution for your other question. Word will always scroll the screen to put the new cursor location in the visible window. If there's a specific part of the document that you want to keep in view at all times, maybe you can use the Window > Split command to get two views of the document. Each pane can have a different zoom and a different location in the document. However, you will have to give up some screen area to the second pane. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Mon, 03 May 2010 10:30:38 -0500, abcd <abcd(a)abcd.abcd> wrote: >Hi all, > >- is there a way to dock the Search mask somewhere? It keeps moving >around the screen at every search. This makes repetitive searches more >time consuming. > >- is there a way to horizontally lock the view of a document? If I am >looking at a document that needs to be zoomed in to make it readable, >when I am looking at zoomed in tables the showed portion of the text >keeps moving left and right and I need to reposition it to the wanted >horizontal section every time that the cursor focus changes. Time >consuming too. > >:-(
From: Tim Mastrogiacomo on 3 May 2010 19:30 On May 3, 10:30 am, abcd <a...(a)abcd.abcd> wrote: > Hi all, > > - is there a way to dock the Search mask somewhere? It keeps moving > around the screen at every search. This makes repetitive searches more > time consuming. > > - is there a way to horizontally lock the view of a document? If I am > looking at a document that needs to be zoomed in to make it readable, > when I am looking at zoomed in tables the showed portion of the text > keeps moving left and right and I need to reposition it to the wanted > horizontal section every time that the cursor focus changes. Time > consuming too. > > :-( For your first question, just unmaximize Word and drag the search box to a part of your desktop outside of the Word window. The search box only moves when a result appears beneath it, so if the search box is outside of the document you are searching, it won't move. Tim Mastrogiacomo
From: abcd on 4 May 2010 09:45 Jay Freedman wrote: > To do repeated searches, you can use the dialog to find the first > occurrence; then close the dialog, and use the double-down-arrow > button at the bottom of the vertical scroll bar (or its keyboard > shortcut, Ctrl+PageDown) to find the remaining occurrences. > That would be a "Dock Search Window" checkbox... > > I don't think there's any perfect solution for your other question. That would be as simple as a "Horizontal View Lock" button.... sigh...
From: abcd on 4 May 2010 09:49
Tim Mastrogiacomo wrote: > On May 3, 10:30 am, abcd <a...(a)abcd.abcd> wrote: > > For your first question, just unmaximize Word and drag the search box > to a part of your desktop outside of the Word window. The search box > only moves when a result appears beneath it, so if the search box is > outside of the document you are searching, it won't move. > > > > Tim Mastrogiacomo Works like a charm if you have a large screen or a twin screen system... I have a 17" and if I reduce the size of the the document window I can barely see the document.... |