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UP TO SPEED HOW SCROLL BARS WORK

These days, swiping with your finger or tapping the space bar are the
most efficient ways to move down a page. But if you’re a mouse addict,

you can still operate the vertical scroll bar at the right edge of the
window.

(It’s ordinarily hidden until you move the mouse or touch the trackpad;
to turn off the auto-hiding, visit → → Ease of Access → Display

→ “Automatically hide scroll bars in Windows.”)

In case this whole scroll bar thing is new to you, the scroll bar is a map
of your entire document or page. In the middle, there’s a sliding, darker

rectangle; its height represents how much of the page you’re already
seeing. For example, if the differently colored handle is one-third the
height or width of the whole screen, then you’re already seeing one-

third of the page.

You can drag the handle to move around the page. You can also click or
tap in the scroll bar track on either side of the handle to make the

window scroll by one screenful.