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CSIS 572 WORKBOOK
Using Scroll Bars
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Using Scroll Bars
Scroll bars appear along the bottom and right edges of a window when text, graphics, or icons in a window take up more space than the area shown. Using scroll bars, you can move up, down, left, or right in a window.
Screenshot of Control Panel window showing scroll bars

The above figure shows an example of scroll bars. Because the Control Panel’s contents are not fully visible in the window, scroll bars are present on the bottom and right sides of the window. The following steps show you one way to use the scroll bars to view items outside the window:

Procedures:

  1. Double-click to open the My Computer window. Double-click on the Control Panel folder to Open.

  2. To see an object that is down and to the right of the viewable area of the window, point at the down arrow located on the bottom of the vertical scroll bar.

  3. Click on the arrow, and the window’s contents scroll up.

  4. Click on the scroll arrow on the right side of the horizontal scroll bar, and the window’s contents move left.

  5. Sometimes you might need to move slowly through a window. You can move the contents of a window one “windowful” at a time by clicking in the scroll bar on either side of the scroll box.

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Last updated January 24, 2005
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