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Old 09-28-2024, 07:31 AM
Peter Tanner Peter Tanner is offline Windows 10 Office 2021
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Originally Posted by Valet2 View Post
Well, I've found the working solution.

Go to view > read mode.
When in read mode go to view > layout > paper layout. The scrollbar appears.
Press esc to exit the read mode. The scrollbar stays and never disappears since then.
I have "Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2404 Build 16.0.17531.20152) 64-bit" - this "solution" does not work for this version either...

Who in their right mind thought that this disappearing-scroll-bar-after-5-seconds-of no-mouse-or-keyboard-activity, or when the document pane no longer has focus, was a wonderful idea???
I often work with documents longer than one screen in height, and I want to see where I am relatively in the document when the document pane doesn't have the focus. This "wonderful invention" of some "brilliant" Microsoft person is so painful!!

How do we ask Microsoft to fix this extremely annoying behavior???
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