page down in word processors - find next

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#1

I am keeping the same thread as it is closely related.
The one thing that I really don't like is that as soon as you do a search the page down button becomes "continue search forward" and the page up becomes "continue search backwards." That is fine while you are searching, but how does one return it to page up and page down ?

#2

You'll notice that then the page buttons are changing colours: by default, they turn blue in search mode while they are black in scroll mode.

To get back from the search mode to the scroll mode, just click the center button (whatitsname?) and select the page icon.

HTH,

#3

Which version of LO are you using? I would really like to have that
facility.

Maybe the 'Esc' key would return the paging key to normal operation.

Dave

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
???!?!!?!??

Ahh.  You were talking about on-screen buttons?  The ones under the vertical scroll bar?  Middle one is called "Navigation".  I was talking about keyboard buttons.  Now i'm not sure what anyone else was talking about.  It's 4am though so i might still be dreaming or having a nightmare or something.  I thought i understood but now i'm flummoxed.

Regards form
Tom :slight_smile:

#5

I was asking about the keyboard PgDn button. On-screen buttons are a
different topic.

#6

It would seem that as LO has evolved, changing the meaning of the page down/up screen buttons to search down/up is no longer needed as the find box (at the bottom of the screen) has search up/down arrows right next to it.

If folk agree, I will file an enhancement request (If someone will give me the buglist address again)

bill

#7

For some time, this has been used for navigation. PageUp/PageDown and SearchUp/SearchDown are only 2 of 20 functions. What about the other 18 functions? I think we can even give this a name: Navigation tool.

--Dan

#8

Tom, Eric,

I was asking about the keyboard PgDn button. On-screen buttons are a
different topic.

to my French understanding, a "button" is some screen widget. On a keyboard there are only "keys".

Sorry if I misunderstood.

#9

You're right, of course. We started talking about keys, but then
somewhere the word 'button' started getting used to refer to keys.
However Tom's reference to the 'Edit File' button to toggle between
'read only' and 'edit' was correct usage--though it may have put
'button' rather than 'key' into our heads.

#10

Hi :slight_smile:
I am not quite sure what the proposal is but here is the link
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport

I like the way OpenSource tends to have many different ways of doing the same thing.  To some extent it seems most programs do but OpenSource sometimes goes a bit further in offering some really odd methods.  So, just because 1 thing works doesn't mean we need to depreciate another way.  People each get used to their own preferred ways and seldom appreciate being forced to learn new ones
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#11

I'm not talking about the center button (which opens the navigation menu), but about the up and down buttons.
bill

#12

pardon moi, mais ... :wink:

           well, just butting in with a 'bit of humour' - this definition
strikes my punny-bone :wink:

       To confuse the foreigners more re. the craziness of the English
language :wink:
           the computer language has re-defined any number of words;
               CDs went from banking to something slid into the computer
...
               memory referred to the human brain then the computer's
storage bank ...
               application went from a form to something working within the
computer's storage bank ....
               cursor was a blasphemer then a point moving amidst the
computer's screen ...
                keyboard went from the pianos to the typewriters to the
computer - thus keys are on the keyboard,
                     yet keys went from opening locks to buttons clicked on
...
                a web was made by a spider then became a site - ah, maybe
that's how hackers decided to draw their victim into their web ...
                virus went from a bacterial infection to - ah, hackers do
infect their victim ...

       au revoir, mon ami,
            don't worry about the craziness of the English language, you're
doing great.

Tom, Eric,

#13

Hi!

        pardon moi, mais ... :wink:

            well, just butting in with a 'bit of humour' - this definition
strikes my punny-bone :wink:

:slight_smile:

        To confuse the foreigners more re. the craziness of the English
language :wink:
            the computer language has re-defined any number of words;

weel, the French language has, too. No problem, I can appreciate puns and humour :slight_smile:

        au revoir, mon ami,

Au revoir !