CSIS 572 WORKBOOK
Using Scroll Bars

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. You can also scroll through the window by using the up, down, left or right arrow on the keyboard.

The above figure shows an example of a scroll bar. Because the contents of the Desktop Background window are not fully visible in the window, a scroll bar is present on the right side of the window. The following steps show you one way to use the scroll bars to view items outside the visible window:

Procedures:

1. Click on the Start button, click on the Control Panel, then click on the Change desktop background under the Appearance and Personalization section.
   
2. To see an object that is down and to the right of the viewable area of the window, point at the down arrow (Scroll arrow) located on the bottom of the vertical scroll bar. Use can also use the down arrow on the keyboard to scroll the window.
   
3. Click on the scroll arrow and the window’s contents scroll up.
   
4. 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 19, 2014
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