[krx]

I don't know when this started happening but it dawned on me I should see if it's happening to anyone else or is it just one of the myriad things the Evil Joker running the Universe does just to provoke me (which is what I've been assuming...). When I hit and hold the scroll button on a Word doc it takes a full 3 seconds (one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand, three-one-thousand) before the doc starts to scroll. If I just hit the button once and don't hold it, it will move down a line or so immediately. But if I want to scroll down more than a line (and don't want to hit the empty space in the scroll bar and go down a whole page), it hangs for 3 seconds.

Is it just my bad karma or is this a known thing?

[Chuckit]

It doesn't take quite that long, but Word does delay about a second before scrolling if I hold in the scroll button, yeah.

[krx]

Mine is definitely a really aggravating 3 seconds long - I've timed it. I can't imagine what purpose it would serve to build in a delay like this, even a one second delay.

[TETENAL]

I can.

[krx]

Care to elaborate?

[TETENAL]

Without a short delay it might be very difficult to scroll exactly one line. So it first scrolls one line, waits a little in case the user lifts the mouse button, and if not continues with continuous scrolling.

[krx]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Without a short delay it might be very difficult to scroll exactly one line. So it first scrolls one line, waits a little in case the user lifts the mouse button, and if not continues with continuous scrolling.

That's exactly how the scroll bar arrows work in my other applications, like Safari: a slight hesitation, then it scrolls rapidly. Word does the one line bump then hangs for a full 3 seconds - which is a h*ll of a long time when you're creating a 5 page outline and needing to scroll up and down constantly (hence the Argh! in the heading).