Neat Word trick

[bobquasit]

I've been gathering tips and tricks from the Web for a project I'm doing at work; mostly stuff to help with Microsoft Word, since that's the application that most people use most.

I've found some pretty neat stuff. But yesterday I discovered something for myself: I was editing something, when suddenly things went crazy. I was holding down the Ctrl key, and for some reason I idly moved the wheel on the mouse. Suddenly the page view size decreased enormously, and I was viewing all of the pages in the document at once.

It turns out that Ctrl-wheel allows you to resize your view of the document on the fly, in 10% increments. It's incredibly easy and useful. I don't know why no one seems to have documented that. It works with older versions of Word, too. Kinda neat!

Comments

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

Goodness. Is this a hidden feature, or a bug that happens to be useful? I recall a saying, "A feature is a bug with senority." You might want to experiment to make sure that it doesn't have some kind of weird side-effect.

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure it's an undocumented feature, since it works for all programs in Microsoft Office, and for other programs too. If it was a bug, it wouldn't work so well, and so universally.

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

Apparently it is a legit feature. See here and here; the latter is the first place I found but my computer mysteriously reset suddenly.