Betalogue

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.

This entry was posted by Pierre Igot on Monday, June 23rd, 2003 at 9:49 pm and is filed under Macintosh. 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.