OT. Sliding text when two documents are viewed side-by-side

[Madelon Mottet]

I have been working with my translation text in a window on the left of my screen and with glossaries in Word format on the right of my screen.

 

The problem is that the reference glossary text keeps jumping to a previous location in the file. For example I may leave the glossary file at page 70 and while working on the translation, it will have suddenly shifted to some much earlier part of the document (say like page 20). The amount of sliding seems quite random though it is always backwards in the document, never forward.

 

I have tried typing on the page hoping that would keep it from jumping backwards, but that does not work. 

 

I had previously tried to have two Word documents side-by-side using Word's "Compare Side by Side" feature (with synchronous scrolling turned off). However, this method was not feasible because this feature appeared to be just too buggy. (It kept reverting to synchronous scrolling.)

 

Does anyone have any ideas on how to keep the pages in a file locked so they don't jump. 

 

I am using Word 2003 and Windows XP. I am also using WordFast, but don't think that is causing the problem.

 

Madelon Mottet, Ph.D.

madelon...@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

[T. Miracle]

Madelon,

I've noticed the same tendency when working with more than one open
document in Word, but discovered that it was the location of the
cursor that usually caused the jump. I.e., if your cursor is
somewhere in page 1 but you move down to something in page 10,
something causes the page view to revert to the last active cursor
position. There may be something in the settings that would allow you
to deactivate this "feature." Simply moving the cursor into the page
I'm viewing usually works for me. Sorry I can't be more specific at
the moment.

Thomas Y. Miracle
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[Madelon Mottet]

Thanks for the thought. I'm glad to see I'm am not the only person who has
had to deal with this undocumented Word "feature" (glitch).

I have tried typing something on the jumping page with the thought that this
would somehow keep Word from reverting to a previous position. But that did
not work.

Madelon Mottet
madelon...@gmail.com

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Posted by Thomas Y. Miracle

I've noticed the same tendency when working with more than one open document
in Word, but discovered that it was the location of the cursor that usually
caused the jump. I.e., if your cursor is somewhere in page 1 but you move
down to something in page 10, something causes the page view to revert to
the last active cursor position.

Thomas Y. Miracle