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On 2012 Oct 14 Sun, at 6:39 am, jem cabanes wrote:

> Hi, Nobumi,
>
> And thank you heartily for the trouble you underwent to make the  
> macro. Yet, it just jumps right at the very beginning of he  
> following page, just one line or two (it doesn't present a full  
> view of the page). Besides, it only works downwards, not upwards.
>
> Many thanks, again.
>
> jem cabanes
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Hi Jem & all,

Present a full view of the page?  Was that part of the objective?
There is of course a built-in option for that:
	View—> Zoom—> Show Entire Page
And when that view is in force, simple page up and down works  
beautifully.

But I supposed you wanted a way to go to a certain page in a more  
zoomed-in view, I have not investigated the macro, but it seems it  
partially does (upon fixing page up) if you were satisfied with being  
taken to the top of each page, which is pretty standard for  
designating a page...

So I'm left thinking you actually desired a way to scroll to the same  
position on the next/prev page?  So that if you are looking at the  
bottom or center of a page, you could move either direction to be  
viewing the same portion of each page, regardless of how much of the  
page may be showing?

I really wish Apple would have addressed that a decade ago, but of  
course it's up to the rest of us now! :-)

I had not previously realized that control-up/down worked to scroll a  
screen.  It truly would be nice if they had one (say option-control- 
up/down) to scroll a full page, and in the way that option right/left  
moves the cursor to the nearest side of each word depending on the  
direction, what if the direction of scrolling a page first showed the  
top or bottom of said page?  I use that method to get to the desired  
side of words all the time.  That is, to get to the left boundary of  
a target word, I hit option-right till I come to the right boundary  
of the target word, and then while still holding the option key,  
press the left arrow key once. :-)

	Ben Andrus
	in drought-ridden Montana, still trying to dodge wild fire smoke.

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