georgehe01: Getting Pages to cooperate with the keyboard page up and page down buttons

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Getting Pages to cooperate with the keyboard page up and page down buttons

For some strange reason, the page up and page down buttons on my keyboard never cooperated with Pages. What I wanted to be able to do was to simply hit those keys on the keyboard, and have Pages scroll up or down to the next page.

You'd think it would do that, but it doesn't. It would always scroll a little more or a little less than a page. Quite maddening. There is a little blue scroll triangle at the bottom of the page that can be clicked to do that, but I wanted to do it with the keyboard.

The macro editor QuicKeys was my solution. I was able to write a simple macro to click that button, and assign the action to the key.

The details:

Create a new shortcut in QuicKeys.
The action is to 'press button.' The location of the button is specified by the number of pixels relative to a defined location; in this case, the left lower corner of the Pages window. On my monitor it was 3 ...