I need some help, I feel stupid!!!

External Since: Oct 09, 2008 Posts: 1

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

Hi,

These Mac's are new to me, this is my first one. My question is going to be hard to ask because I am not even sure what to call it but here it goes. When you use a PC version on Word, on the right side of the page there is a bar to click on and the page will move up and down with the slide of the mouse. I do not have a way to move my page up and down so I may look at what I typed on page one. The slide is not there! I hope someone understands my question. I am not so sure at this point if I should have made the switch from a PC. A lot of things are hard to figure out.

External Since: May 06, 2006 Posts: 1248

It sounds like what you're referring to is the vertical Scroll Bar, which
operates in much the same way in Mac apps as it does in PC Word. If you have
only one page & are zoomed to see the entire page in your window the scroll
bar will be inactive - there's nowhere to scroll to. If the whole page
doesn't fit or if there are more pages scrolling is the same. The only
difference is that the Mac OS allows you to have the scroll arrows -
normally at top & bottom on the PC - to be top/bottom or both at the bottom.

If you're saying that the vertical scroll bar is missing altogether go to
Word> Preferences - View & restore the check in the Window group.

FYI: This newsgroup is one of the less active groups & intended for issues
with MS products for Mac other than the 4 primary Office apps. Word, Excel,
PPt & Entourage all have their own dedicated groups and any future postings
will be addressed more promptly if submitted to the appropriate group rather
than here. They can be accessed from:

http://www.officeformac.com/ProductForums/

This question, for example, would be better off in the
[microsoft.public.mac.public.word] newsgroup, so if I've not answered it
effectively please submit any further request there. Also, always state the
exact version of Office & OS X - both can make a difference in how any given
issue needs to be handled.

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

On 10/9/08 7:08 PM, in article 59b5c39d.-1.DeleteThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"nascar36@officeformac.com" <nascar36.DeleteThis@officeformac.com> wrote:

> Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
>
> Hi,
>
> These Mac's are new to me, this is my first one. My question is going to be
> hard to ask because I am not even sure what to call it but here it goes. When
> you use a PC version on Word, on the right side of the page there is a bar to
> click on and the page will move up and down with the slide of the mouse. I do
> not have a way to move my page up and down so I may look at what I typed on
> page one. The slide is not there! I hope someone understands my question. I am
> not so sure at this point if I should have made the switch from a PC. A lot of
> things are hard to figure out.