Why oh why oh why?

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Nancy Allison wondered: <<[why] does word show the highlighted  
results of a search just **above** the top of my text window? So that  
Ihave to scroll up after each and every search to see if it has found  
the result I'm looking for? Is there any solution to this *&%*!!  
problem, which has existed for as long as I have been using Word?>>

Why? Sloppy programming. How to solve it? Try this: After you find  
the first search hit, close the Find dialog. You can now press  
Control/Command + PageDown to find the next instance (or click once  
on the double down arrows at the bottom of the scroll bar). This  
usually finds it neatly in the middle of the screen, avoiding the  
whole problem. Control + PageUp searches backwards, as does clicking  
the double up arrows.

Only one minor caveat: Sometimes Word forgets what you're looking for  
(most often if you insert a comment or move around too much using the  
keyboard), and you have to reopen the Find dialog and click "Find  
next" again. But this is easy to spot: instead of finding the search  
term, Word takes you to your last position in the file. Not a big  
deal; just open the Find dialog and start over.


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