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Scrolling in a Netscape Navigator window

• Four scrolling techniques will be described. Each will be illustrated with a short movie which will continually scroll. At the end of this tutorial all four movies will be posted side-by-side with a control strip so you can compare the four methods.

  Single click on the up or down arrow

  
  Each time you click on the up or down arrow the screen moves up or down one line. This is the slowest method of scrolling. Unless the page is very short, this method should be used only to make adjustments after using one of the other methods.

  Repeated clicks in the empty gray area of the scroll bar

  
  Each time that you click in the empty scroll area the web page will move up or down one screen. If you are scrolling on a relatively short page and want to survey the entire page this technique works quite well.

  Click and hold on the up or down arrow

  
  Put your cursor directly on the up or down arrow and leave the mouse button depressed. As long as the button is depressed the screen will continue to scroll. This is a relatively fast way to scroll and can be used quite well on a page that is 3 to 5 screens long

  Click and hold in just below the up arrow or just above the down arrow

  
  If you are at the top of a page and want to scroll to the bottom, place the tip of your cursor in the empty gray portion of the scroll bar just above the down arrow and keep the mouse button held down. This is a very fast scrolling method.

  Click and drag the slide button

  
  Put the tip of your cursor on the slide that moves up and down in the scroll bar. Depress the mouse button and drag the slide up or down. The page will scroll as slow or as fast as you move the slide. This can be a very fast method of scrolling, but there is a tendency to move past where you want to be on the page when using this technique.

  Side-by-side comparison

  To see any of the movies below, click on the right-pointing arrow in the control bar

  Single Click	Repeated Clicks	On Arrow	Below arrow	Drag Slide

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Downloading other versions of Netscape

Netscape Communicator 4.5 - available for Mac 7.6 or higher or Windows 95/98/NT

Netscape Communicator 4.0 - available for Mac or Windows 3.1/95/98/NT

Archived versions including:

• Communicator and Navigator Standalone 4.05
• Communicator and Navigator Standalone 4.03
• Navigator and Navigator Gold 3.04
• Navigator and Navigator Gold 3.01
• Navigator and Navigator Gold 2.02

Other Netscape tutorials

• Finding Information on the Internet - Teaching Library Internet Workshops from the University of California, Berkeley. A Netscape Basics lesson is available.
• Internet Guide and Web Tutorial - Since this is a Microsoft site it obviously does not feature Netscape. However, there is good information on searching and using a browser.
• Internet Guides, Tutorials, and Training Information - A Library of Congress Internet Resource page
• WebTeacher's Web Tutorial is designed for use by K-12 teachers and students. This project is a joint effort of the National Cable Television Association (NCTA) and TECH CORPS.

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