Technical question about posting
 

<BR>When there's a thread such as "Do you know?" with over 300 posts, HOW do you get to the end without having to scroll all the way to the end? Certainly there has to be an easier way, that I'm just not familiar with???<BR><BR>Or, suggestion to Fodors: Put the most recent posts first!! ?? Then we wouldn't have to do that!

This applies to most anything on your computer. Here, click on the post to bring up the responses. Click your cursor in the "response" side of the screen, then hit the "end" key on your keyboard (insert, home, page up, delete, END, page down). Voila, you are now looking at the last post of that thread.

Can't you just drag the elevator button (on the scroll bar on the right-hand side) to the bottom? I tried it on "Do you know," and I was at the bottom in less than a second or two.<BR><BR>I like the way posts are ordered now. I don't want to have to read from the bottom up to follow a thread. To each his/her own, I guess.

<BR>Yowza, I had no idea. <BR>And I have been computer literate (uh huh) for ummm....well for awhile now.<BR>Thanks for the lesson!

Yeah, thanks! What great tips! <BR>I've been ignoring super-long posts for at least a year - this opens up a whole new Fodor world!

...And you may also notice about that elevator: the size and position shows where you are in the thread...so if you've been reading awhile you can glance to the right to see just where you are at - beginning, halfway, etc.<BR><BR>I agree with billy, I like the order of the posts the way they are.

All you have to do to reach the end of any message is right click on the cursor side of the post and click bottom.

Lets see, are you an AOL or WebTv user?

To x and non:<BR>Neither of your suggestions works with Windows NT.

Are you right clicking inside the up & donw arrows area where you move the bar up & down is, on the right side of the post, not on the bar itself?

Both suggestions work for Windows NT.

Wow, thanks X! I didn't know that! Just tried it! :-)

x:<BR>At least in NT (and probably all versions of Windows), hitting the "end" key while the response window is the focus does nothing. You need to hit "Ctrl-End" to get to the end of the window.<BR><BR>non:<BR>In retrospect, I haven't tried your suggestion on a MESSAGE that takes up more than the screen (I'm running a 21" monitor at very high resolution, so few messages actually fill my screen). I know your suggestion does NOT work in NT when trying to get to the last message.

Les, I don't think I made myself clear. I'm using Windows XP. You must have your cursor on the side of the message responses, just as you must when you scroll through responses. THEN if you hit the end key on your keyboard, it will take you to the very last response in that thread. That's how XP works, that's how Me works, that's how 98 worked and can't imagine NT being so vastly different.

Les,<BR><BR>Well?

i cannot believe that people dont know how to do this

Works for me under both NT and Win2K.

Thanks for the tips. cntrl end works for me (Windows NT), but for the life of me I don't know what you're talking about when you say you need to have the "cursor" in the response window. My cursor (the blinking vertical line) never appears in the response window. The arrow appears, but you can't click it anywhere in the response window so "placing the cursor" in the response window doesn't make any sense to me. right clicking in the response window does not reveal an option called "bottom." Right clicking on the up or down arrows does nothing.<BR>

x:<BR>OK, I guess I didn't make myself clear, either. Withe the response window as the focus (i.e., my cursor IS on the side of the message responses), hitting the "End" key does nothing. That's my story, and I'm sticking with it!<BR>Hitting "Ctrl-End", on the other hand, takes me to the bottom of the window.<BR>So I suppose NT really does behave differently than XP.

Les, And you've actually clicked it once to "set" it there? You mentioned your large screen and high resolution. You do have it in a looong thread of responses when you try this, I'm assuming. It works for Frank, with NT. Ctrl End would be a PITA! Throw out your keyboard, get a new one, defrag then re-format--oh, and get a new video card while you're at it. (That would be a tech support response!)<BR><BR>me, it is surprising that some don't know this--especially the "elevator" button!! Yikes. Am sure there are plenty of little secrets escaping me too, just that no one has mentioned them in front of me yet. I was astounded in one BB where some people had never heard of cut and paste!

Ya gotta remember, me and x, we're all here 'cause we're fired up about TRAVEL! To some, the keyboard is a pain in the @#$! on the way to a great vacation!!! :)

And thanks for the tips!

x:<BR>Actually, your entire response sounds like a typical tech support answer (which means that the tech support technician, who himself has no idea what to do, assumes the same level of incompetence from the caller, and resorts to the "replace and reload" mentality).<BR>In fact, I'm quite well versed in both the hardware and software aspects of computers, and I can assure you that your suggestions won't solve what you perceive as a problem, but what I perceive as a normal Windows keystroke combination for getting to the end of a document (or, in this case, a thread).

Well Les, if you'll read back in these responses, you will see that my method works for J Correa and Frank, both of whom use Windows NT. Now why would it NOT work on your computer when it works on theirs, with the same OS? And when you responded to "non", you confessed that you "weren't trying his method on a message that took up more than one screen". That's kind of a "duh", isn't it? Thanks for your kind words, by the way, but you see, I did have some idea what to do and was trying to impart that. smooch Frankly, I don't care how you get there. I was trying to help and glad the tip did help some. ta ta Let's travel.

One last thought for hardware/software savvy Les, then I'm outta here. I'm thinking in the wrong direction. Keystrokes would follow the application. Are you using Netscape Navigator rather than Internet Explorer?

You've got it, x, I was wondering when someone would realize that the behavior might be application dependent rather then OS dependent. Anyway, I found that END works on Netscape 6.2 but not on 4.08, which requires a CTRL-END. Would have tested it earlier but frankly, I found this topic to be rather boring.

x:<BR>"Throw out your keyboard, get a new one, defrag then re-format--oh, and get a new video card while you're at it."<BR>Does that sound like a sensible reply to you? Indicative of someone who's not really interested in answers.<BR>By the way, the application WAS the source of the discrepancy. I generally use Netscape, and "Ctrl-End" is the key sequence required. but in IE, "End" does the trick.

Les, I was JOKING when I said that for crying out loud!!! Everyone of us has jumped through dumb hoops for someone's Tech Support people. I did just last week with ViewSonic. One of the 3 I talked with swore the problem was my video card, the next swore it was refresh rate, the next swore it was auto sync. This is fresh in my mind you see, and it was an attempt at humor (as my 6 month old, $700 monitor makes its way back to CA). Their replies are, more often than not, nonsensical, as that one was intended to be. Anyway, Frank and Les, glad to know we hit on the solution. All you need now to be au current, is the newer version of Netscape.

x:<BR>OK, peace. I guess I didn't recognize a joke when I saw it.<BR>I would certainly never upgrade my Netscape (and never ever change to IE) simply to be able to press "End" instead of "Ctrl-End".<BR>By the way, Microsoft is inconsistent on this, even among their own applications.<BR>For word and Excel, it's "Ctrl-End"; for IE, it's "End" OR "Ctrl-End", and for PowerPoint, it's "End". So much for MS's intention of providing a consistent user interface for all Windows programs.