{"id":504,"date":"2008-02-10T22:54:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T21:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2008-02-10T22:54:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T21:54:39","slug":"a-word-2007-annoyance-disappearing-vertical-scroll-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/504-a-word-2007-annoyance-disappearing-vertical-scroll-bar.html","title":{"rendered":"A Word 2007 annoyance: disappearing vertical scroll bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is odd. A couple of times in the last week Microsoft Word has decided I no longer require a vertical scroll bar. The only way I know to turn it back on is to go into Word options, Advanced, and check the option Show vertical scroll bar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/wordnoscrollbar.gif\"> <\/p>\n<p>But how is it getting unchecked? My first assumption was that I must have inadvertently pressed an obscure key combination that toggles the vertical scroll bar, but I can&#8217;t find any such shortcut. A bug?<\/p>\n<p>By the way, did you know you can get a complete list of Word commands and shortcuts? Click the Developer ribbon, then Macros, then select Word commands from the Macros in drop-down list. Select the macro ListCommands, then click Run. Word will offer you a document containing either Current Keyboard Settings, or All Commands. The All Commands list is 46 pages long, and contains roughly 2000 commands, none of which hides the vertical scroll bar.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:28b97d48-f12b-458a-a989-baf674501b8f\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/word%202007\" rel=\"tag\">word 2007<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/vertical%20scroll%20bar\" rel=\"tag\">vertical scroll bar<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is odd. A couple of times in the last week Microsoft Word has decided I no longer require a vertical scroll bar. The only way I know to turn it back on is to go into Word options, Advanced, and check the option Show vertical scroll bar. But how is it getting unchecked? My &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/504-a-word-2007-annoyance-disappearing-vertical-scroll-bar.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Word 2007 annoyance: disappearing vertical scroll bar<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}