Betalogue

Take a Word document with a table. Put the insertion point in a table cell and then scroll up the document so that the cell with the insertion point is right along the bottom edge of the window, like so:

Then press the Down key once.

Normally, when you press the Down key in such a situation in a Word document, Word puts the insertion point in the next line and automatically scrolls down the document a bit, so that the line where the insertion point is now is fully visible.

The problem is that, in this particular case, it does not. The cursor goes down to the next line (or table row), but the document doesn’t scroll, and the cursor becomes almost invisible because of it.

Word does scroll down as soon as you start typing or moving the cursor horizontally with the Left/Right keys. But still… It’s supposed to scroll down automatically as soon as you go down with the Down key. It does it automatically when the cursor is not in a table. This problem occurs only in tables.

It’s a small thing — but yet another example of the multitude of small details that are wrong in Word.

This entry was posted by Pierre Igot on Friday, March 18th, 2005 at 7:23 am and is filed under Microsoft. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.