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Old 05-02-2020, 09:04 AM
yourfriend0 yourfriend0 is offline Teleprompter scrolling (partial text of page) in Word - NOT built-in Windows 10 Teleprompter scrolling (partial text of page) in Word - NOT built-in Office 2013
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Hi,

I have tried to use the following feature but it doesn't work and doesn't do what is needed by me:

Options\Quick Access Toolbar\Choose commands from: Commands Not in the Ribbon\Separator: Auto Scroll\button Add\button OK

So I repeat again this won't work.

What I need is the following: functionality similar to Free teleprompter



I would like to be able to hide on sales web appointment the fact that I am, sometimes, reading the pre-prepared speech (e.g. some presentation or some negotiation statements) instead of speaking it freely. The problem is that if I read the text directly from Word, the eyes are moving as I read and even worst thing is that the exact direction of my look can be focused on one dynamic point of the screen only: the actual word which is currently being read. The potential client on the other side could see this when I have web camera active. This could have major negative impact on finalizing the sale because he or she may think that I'm unable to speak without a "cheat sheet" and consequence of this could also be a loss of trust and my credibility.

If you try to listen how you sound when you speak freely (without reading anything) and compare this how you sound when you read some text, the danger is that the other person may be able to recognize from your tonality of voice how you speak and he or she will recognize that you are actually reading the text. The possibility of having finalized sale from that web appointment can be by far lower and risk of losing the client if he or she recognizes that you actually speak, is large.

The solution is in previously said webite: Its main benefit is that it offers you possibility to have very small LENGTH of line of text (quantity of words in line of text). E.g. just three words or so. So very short lines. Secondary benefit is having very large fonts on maximized screen when reading. Putting this all together makes you hide the fact that you are actually reading the text very well and possibility for potential client to catch you on that is very low. You can sit back, adjust the speed of downward text moving and since the lines are very short, your eyes won't move. I really like this because it's very hard for me to learn and remember some text and this way its easy to hide the fact you are actually reading the text.

There are two main reasons why I cannot use cueprompter and therefore 3 main reasons why I need your help:

reason 1: I only want to read some parts of my web appointment discussion (speech) and definitely not everything. I don't want to have on such scrolling prompter entire page but only a part of the text (only a part of the Word's page)

reason 2: I have many Word files and many parts of text where would I want to have scrolling prompted upon click of a button. On web appointments I have to be quick and cannot invest time in searching in opened internet browser which tab (which webpage) belongs to which part of text on which page of which Word file. Therefore I'm looking to incorporate into a piece of text that functionality so I can only click on it once, with PRE-prepared (extremely important!) parameters such as: size of screen, size of fonts, length of line (or quantity of words) to be sure eyes won't move and of course speed of text downward scrolling. It is also important that I can temporary stop the scrolling with one single click of a button in case if potential client interrupts me while I'm speaking (in reality reading but this is to be hidden from him or her) and then continue with additional click of a button.

reason 3: functionality of above said website doesn't provide any custom URL with lifetime saved text. This means it is impossible to make multiple hyperlinks and take care in advance that those webpages, all pointed at Cueprompter website, will be immediately opening with instant scrolling activated.

How could I do something like this in MS Word? Please can someone help me? It takes me like half hour to learn only around two sentences in average 10 words each. I was always very bad at studying sentences and really need some help from you how to make this prompter word for particular pieces of Word's pages.
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Do you have a mouse with a clickable wheel? Clicking this puts Word into scroll mode and you can move the mouse up or down to change direction and speed of the scroll.

Assuming this works, you put the document into Draft View and adjust the text size to show however much text you want per line.
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Do you have a mouse with a clickable wheel? Clicking this puts Word into scroll mode and you can move the mouse up or down to change direction and speed of the scroll.

Assuming this works, you put the document into Draft View and adjust the text size to show however much text you want per line.

This would never work due to two reasons:


it would scroll down entire page instead of piece of text only.


it would not give me needed parameters to be defined in advance ( ! ) such as length of line (quantity of words), screen size, font size, etc.
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This would never work due to two reasons:


it would scroll down entire page instead of piece of text only.


it would not give me needed parameters to be defined in advance ( ! ) such as length of line (quantity of words), screen size, font size, etc.
You obviously haven't tried it...

Scrolling with the mouse is by line, not page.

You can define whatever parameters you want in advance. Another approach would be to reduce the page size (e.g. A4>A5) and/or increase the margin widths and zoom level (e.g. to 150%), plus reduce the size of the Word window, all to facilitate reading from a smaller window to limit eye movement.

It seems to me you're more interested in naysaying than finding a solution.
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Well, then, you've determined that it won't work.
My recommendation is to try it before you rule it out.

Word is a word processor. It is designed to put words on paper. It can do a remarkable number of other things, but don't get too upset that it doesn't do your other thing.

None of the people who have responded to your question work for Microsoft. We are all your fellow users and volunteers.
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