Hi folks,

I've been massively annoyed with a Word 2007 problem for years now, and I'm on the verge of migrating to Open Office if I can't solve it (the problem does not exist there).

I like to set my cursor and scroll position at a particular point in a document before minimizing the window, but when I later restore the window, I have to re-scroll the document back to where I want it each and every time! It never stays where I put it!

Word 97 and Word 2000 didn't have this problem. No matter where I left the scroll position of a document, it would always restore to that exact same location--whether or not the cursor was positioned there. I like to open two windows for the same document so I can use each window to edit or reference other portions of the document. I find this endless need to re-scroll for the position I last left the document at to be extremely disruptive to my work flow. Disruptive to the point where, after a while, I just want to throw my computer out the window and get a job driving truck or something.

Maybe I wouldn't find it so disruptive if it always worked this way. But, to my knowledge, this problem was only introduced in Word 2007 and was never an issue in any previous incarnation of Word. This problem also does not exist in Open Office, which always restores a minimized document to the exact position I left it at.



Has anyone else found this problem an annoyance? Has anyone figured out a way to get Word to correctly remember a window's scroll position? Just how on earth would it actually forget it????