Feb 28, '11 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: r2xman
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 357 pixels horizontal by -7 pixels vertical, for the page down click, and 339 horizontal by -7 for the page up.
[crarko adds: I thought one might be able to assign keys in Pages using System Preferences » Keyboard » Keyboard Shortcuts » Application Shortcuts. To my surprise, Pages (and Keynote and Numbers) did not show up in the list of applications I could choose to assign a keyboard shortcut to. I could add it using 'Other.' Is this because the iWork suite is installed by default into a subfolder in /Applications?]
