TITLE
    Mac OS: Controlling Window Scrolling, Menu Pulldown
Article ID:
Created:
Modified:
25021
10/13/99
12/11/00

TOPIC

    My Macintosh is great, but scrolling is sometimes too fast. Is there any way I can slow the scrolling of menus and windows?


DISCUSSION

    When scrolling through a menu that is longer than your display, there is a small triangle at the bottom of the menu (see Figure 1). When scrolling up, the triangle is at the top of the menu.

    Positioning the pointer on the same line as the arrow will slow the scroll speed. Going below (or above if scrolling up) the arrow will invoke the normal scroll speed.




    Figure 1: Small triangle at the bottom of a long menu.


    When scrolling documents, you can click once in the gray area above or below the scroll box to move up or down a screen. You can also move the scroll box up and down directly by dragging it up or down. See Figure 2.




    Figure 2: Scroll box in a scrollbar.


    Some programs may also have keyboard shortcuts for moving up or down a page.


Document Information
Product Area: Mac OS System Software
Category: General OS
Sub Category: General Topics

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