Page Up and Page Down not working right

Posted by Pierre Igot in: Macintosh
June 23rd, 2003 • 9:49 pm

This is a problem that I have been experiencing for several years now and have yet to be able to understand or solve.

Quite frequently, in certain applications, when the document I am viewing is in full-page view mode (meaning that I can see the whole page all the way to its edges, including the margins and everything), if I press the Page Up or Page Down keys, instead of jumping up or down one full page, it jumps up or down a little more or a little less than a full page.

Right now, for example, I have a Letter US-size document open in Word X. If I go to Page Layout view mode and choose to view the whole page and then press the Page Down key, it jumps down by a length of a little more than one full page, which causes a little bit of the top part of the current page to be hidden from view at the top of the window, and a little bit of the following page to appear at the bottom of the window.

And in Acrobat Reader 6, I have a PDF document with 4×6 pages. I am viewing it in “Continuous” mode with the zoom set to display a full page in the window. If I press the Page Down key, it jumps by a length of a little less than one full page, which causes a little bit of the previous page to appear at the top of the window and a little bit of the bottom part of the current page to be hidden from view at the bottom of the window.

Of course, the effect is cumulative, meaning that if I press Page Down several times, in both cases the problem gets gradually worse and soon enough I have to readjust everything manually so that I can see a full page again instead of two half-pages.

I have no idea what causes this, and the problem is obviously not limited to one specific application. But it annoys the hell out of me.


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