I just got Word 2013 a week ago. I have two related problems: (1) Word 2010 used to allow you to navigate page up/down a page at a time - there were arrows on the right that let you do it. Word 2013 does not seem to have this feature, but I figured
out that I can use the Control+FN+page down/up keys to move page by page. This brings me to my second problem (2) If I happen to have searched for something, then the page down/up feature no longer works, but instead it takes me to the same old search each
time. This happens even after I have erased the search words from the search box. Even after doing that, if I then want to go up or down, I keep ending up at the search spot which I no longer need. The only way to make this stop happening is to exit the document
and open it back up. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks.
The keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDown are assigned to the
BrowsePrev and BrowseNext commands. In previous versions of Word, the double arrows at the bottom of the vertical scroll bar also execute these commands, and there is a
Select Browse Object button between the arrows that allows you to select which object you want to browse by. The default actions at Word startup are
Previous Page and Next Page, but after the
Find (or Replace or Go To) dialog has been used, they become
Previous Find/GoTo and Next Find/GoTo. To restore the original action, you have to use
Select Browse Object to select Browse by Page.
This works great in Word 2010 and earlier (it's particularly helpful, in versions that don't have the
Navigation pane, to be able to use them to navigate quickly through search results). In Word 2013, an unfortunate design decision was made to eliminate the browse arrows and the
Select Browse Object gallery. In the Navigation pane (Results tab), you can click the arrow at the end of the search box and find some of the "browse objects" to search by, but
Page is not one of them.
You could add Next Page and Previous Page buttons to the Quick Access Toolbar (File | Options | Customize Quick Access Toolbar: All Commands).
You could assign the Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDown shortcuts to the
NextPage and PrevPage commands (File | Options | Customize Ribbon: Keyboard shortcuts). (If these commands don't work as expected, there are also commands called GoToNextPage and
GoToPreviousPage; these would surely work.)
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