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At the bottom and right side of the document there are scroll bars that control what part of the document you are viewing at any given time. If you need more room to view a document, or if you are using Word without a mouse, you can turn off the scroll bars. To control display of the scroll bars, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The View tab of the Options dialog box.
With the scroll bars turned off, you must use the cursor control keys to move through the document.
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2018-10-04 03:29:53
Arturas
Well, that was inrteresting. The horizontal scroll bar was missing. I finally found the options under the customise ribbon section (Word 07). It was turned on so I turned it off and then turned it on again. but still no scroll bar. So I tried control + the curser keys, but without suitable navigation results. So I tried control+alt+curser keys and everything went sideways. But when I got things rightside up again, the horizontal bar had returned.
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