Subject: A lurkers inquiry
From: Gakko (gakko@sleepy.dk)
Date: Fri Jan 19 2001 - 05:51:58 CST
Hi everyone
After having been an avid lurker on this list, I am finally "coming out"
with my first set of questions.
I was reading through Dom's imp/exp doc, and I noticed something.
The page count in the status bar always shows the page where the cursor is.
This means that if I browse through a document using the scrollbar, there is
no indication of where I am at the moment (unless the author uses page
numbers)
Now, this is no problem in a doc of 4 pages, but what if I was
reading/browsing a much larger doc, say > 100 pages.
I checked with my version of Word2K, and it shows the page number of the
page in view and not that of the cursor's position.
In my opinion, neither method is satisfactory. I have often been annoyed
that Word jumps back to the cursor if I inadvertently press arrow up/down
after having browsed using the scrollbar. But I find it very useful to
quickly be able to see which page I'm looking at.
So my suggestion is this:
How about changing the status text to something like
Page: 56/213 (cursor on 27)
or
Page: 56/213(27)
or
Page: 56(27)/213
or something 4th
or maybe use another of Word's ideas; show the current page number as a tool
tip on the scrollbar, when scrolling.
any comments?
Jesper Larsen-Ledet
- If pigs could fly, would they migrate?
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