Control AutoScroll in Word 2007

I would like to control the AutoScroll speed in MS Word 2007.

When I press the mouse wheel with the pointer over the center of a Word document, the up and down arrows with a dot between them graphic appears as it should. The smallest mouse move either way (up or down) causes the scroll speed to go much too fast. I want to control it. I want to be able to set the AutoScroll speed to scroll more slowly so I can read the text.

This same AutoScroll function's speed is OK with web pages.

I am using a MS Optical USB Intellimouse, Office 2007, Word 2007, Windows 7 (x64), i7-920 CPU, Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R motherboard, a solid state drive and 6 GB of RAM...(yes, it's refreshingly fast)

TIA for your help

drcarl

 

anyone???

 

Alas! After considerable searching, I have come to the conclusion that it cannot be done. It seems that the feature was available in Word 97, but it was probably too good to keep. :confused
I did find a bit of software that looks like it does what you want, at:

http://textreader.software.informer.com/

but this has not been checked out by MG, so it doesn't have the stamp of approval.

(Not sure how to go about suggesting/requesting a software check - perhaps some passerby can enlighten me/us :wave).

 

I also did some searching on this but found no way to control the AutoScroll speed. I searched for settings in Word and looked at mouse settings but could not find a way to control it.

 

Thanks Geeksters.

Although I could not find a proper link to get and try the TextReader program, I'll look along those lines for a solution.

Hmmm...thinking now...I suppose I could make a .pdf out of whatever and read it that way - with Adobe's adjustable scroller.

Thanks again

drcarl

 

Good idea.
Are you saying the link below to textreader doesn't work?

 

Link works, at least it goes to a site...yet once on the site, those secondary or tertiary links do not work...at least not for me...(I do not want to run a free scan as offered)

 

You can get it here:
http://www.tucows.com/preview/286713
or here
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/E-Book/TextReader.shtml
without the free scan.

 

Thank you for the working links. Downloaded, scanned, installed and poked around for every option. I can't find ANYthing about scrolling...as in auto-scrolling...like a teleprompter.

I enjoy making a column narrow, the text size giant, and 5 or 10 words so big they run from the left to the right side of the screen. Then, I can set it on auto-scroll at MY reading speed, and read it from across the room, or from outside while I enjoy a cigar...

I'm after auto-scroll at my speed.

I pasted some text into a word document and saved it as a pdf. Auto scroll works just fine.

I still wish I could trick Word into doing that...oh well!

Thanks!

drcarl

 

Very funny, if nothing else. :-D
Sorry it didn't work out.
I wonder if there's anything else around. I might have another look in a quiet moment.
Your PDF idea was a good one.

 

I'm always glad when anyone gets a chuckle out of anything! (really!)

Yes, always looking to be educated and/or entertained, standing outside while smoking a cigarette conflicted with my desire for constant input and wanting not to 'waste time' so to speak. Before I quit smoking cigarettes (June 2009; yaye!), and since I'd never smoke inside, I would go outside of my sliding glass door within clear sight of my monitor, and read whatever I pasted into word as it scrolled along (at my pace).

Now, sadly, the only way I can re-create the teleprompter effect for the now rare occasion when I'd want to read what's inside while having a cigar outside is by pasting text into Adobe's Acrobat and auto-scrolling it there. That certainly works, yet is just not as fluid a process to me....since I'm used to doing it in Word.

Thanks again for your feedback.

Be well,

drcarl

 

I have had another idea which I have partially working. That is to write a macro for Word that scrolls down one line then pauses for an appropriate amount of time, then scrolls again. Unfortunately, my macro skills are not quite up to it... If someone else could put this together, they'd be most welcome - it's very simple (perhaps you know how to do this drcarl).

 

Great idea! Never made a macro for word. Made the equivalent in Photoshop ("actions"). Still, that's a great idea especially if the scroll-rate could be adjusted...hmmm.....(don't think it'd be smooth enough; maybe...)

 

It would jump one line every half second or so (you could set and adjust the time interval). You might be able to get used to it. You can try a manual version by reading a Word document and clicking on the scroll down arrow every now and then.
You might even be able to shift the scroll bar a small distance and put that in a macro. That could smooth it out a bit.

 

OK, here's a shot at it. Very rudimentary, I'm afraid. There are better ways to get a delay happening in Word 2007 I think, but not so easy on W 2003. This method just makes the computer count to waste time. You can alter the delay by adjusting that iCount number.
It also doesn't recognise the end of the document in my Word - maybe it will in yours. If not, you have to close it, which it doesn't like - it hangs.
Someone out there might be able to tidy this up a bit.
There might even be a smoother way to scroll - there was a MoveDown function I saw, but I don't know what it does. (This is the first unrecorded macro I've done, so very novice, I'm afraid.)


Sub Scroll()

Do
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.SmallScroll Down:=1
'Delay by counting
For iCount = 1 To 20000000
Next iCount
Loop Until (Selection.End = ActiveDocument.Content.End - 1)

End Sub

 

Thanks - now I'll have to look up how to run macros

 

Look no further...
In Word,

1. On the Tools menu, point to Macro, and then click Macros.
2. In the Macros in list, click the template or document in which you want to store the macro (e.g. Normal template if you want it available for all documents created in this template).
3. In the Macro name box, type a name for the macro (e.g. Scroll).
4. Click Create to open the Visual Basic Editor.
5. Paste the macro in where the cursor is.
6. Close out.

To see how to make a keyboard shortcut to run the macro, go here:
http://wordprocessing.about.com/od/workingwithmacro1/l/blmacrokey.htm

And here's a better macro (paste everything from this next line, down to Loop Until Not myBool - the stuff between the hashes):

#############################################
Static myBool As Boolean
' The second time you run the macro, myBool changes:
myBool = Not myBool
Dim PauseTime, Start

PauseTime = 2.3 ' Set duration. Alter this number to adjust scroll speed.

Do
Start = Timer ' Set start time.
Do
DoEvents ' Yield to other processes.
Loop Until Timer - Start > PauseTime
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.SmallScroll Down:=1
Loop Until Not myBool
#############################################


To change the scroll speed:
Tools>Macro>Macros
Select your Macro (called Scroll) and click edit. Change the PauseTime and Close out.

Alternatively, press Ctrl+Break (over there on the right of the keyboard next to the number pad). You will need to do this to stop the macro anyway, as far as I can tell, and it seems you can't edit until you stop. You can then click Debug to adjust the macro timer.

 

Cool, thanks!

 

Well, it's taken a while, but I may have a better solution to this problem than those previously posted.
I have just discovered that Adobe Reader has a scroll function with speed control. So if you want to read a Word document, you can convert it to PDF, then use Ctrl+Shift+H to scroll. The speed is controlled by typing a number 0 to 9 (9 is fastest). :-D

 

Thank you for the input and idea. Thing is, I noticed just a few days ago that SOMEhow, MS seems to have enabled the slow-scroll! I bet it was a hidden part of some update.

It's so nice to have my "tele prompter" back again

 

hMMM... mINE IS STILL THE SAME OLD FAST SCROLL - oFFICE 2003.
I see Caps Lock auto cancel doesn't work at MG either! :-D