Ms Word For Mac Synchronous Scrolling

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Ms Word Synchronous Scrolling

When you are reading a long document in Word, dragging the mouse for a long time can make your fingers uncomfortable, especially in winter, everybody wants to put hands in the coat pockets. So how can we achieve it? Here’s a simple guide.

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1. Click File in the top left.

The Synchronous choice is gone.on both the left and right windows. NOTE: This problem may have started after I wanted to open a second instance of Word. I did so by right-clicking on the Word icon in my taskbar and choosing Word 2016. Notes: To scroll both documents at the same time, click Synchronous Scrolling in the Window group on the View tab. If you don't see Synchronous Scrolling, click Window on the View tab, and then click Synchronous Scrolling. To close Side by Side view, click View Side. Word for Microsoft 365 Word for Microsoft 365 for Mac Word for the web Word 2019 Word 2019 for Mac Word 2016 Word 2013 Word 2010 Word 2007 Word 2016 for Mac Word for Mac 2011 Word.


2. Click Options in the bottom left.


3. The Word Options dialog box will display, go to Customize Ribbon tab, choose Commands Not in the Ribbon and click New Group in the bottom right. Then select Auto Scroll in the drop-down list, hit Add and you will see it has been created in the Main Tabs.


4. Simply click OK, and the Auto Scroll button has been added in the Home tab.

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In Microsoft Word you can easily view two documents side-by-side and even scroll through them synchronously with a few easy clicks!

Open two documents to view them side by side.

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Now from any document window, navigate to View tab and click View Side by Side.

Clicking will open both Word document windows. Click in each window to put the cursor at the same position in each window. Now for generic comparison purposes, click Synchronous Scrolling.

On scrolling down the window, you will notice that scrolling is now synced with the other document. On scrolling up/down a document window, the other document will automatically be scrolled in the same same way.

Just click Reset Window Position to reset the original position of both document windows.

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Thanks to Joanne Doherty for this great tip!! Tune in next week to learn how you can use this feature in MS Excel. If you have a tip that you would like to share, please feel free to email your suggestion to the Hotline. It may appear in a future edition of Tech Savvy Tuesday. To email your suggestion to the Hotline, just open a new message and type Hotline in the To Field.