Microsoft Word 2010 - Gain a Few Extra Pixels; Disable the Vertical Scroll Bar

SUMMARY: Turning off Word 2010's vertical scroll bar may make it easier to view/edit documents without having to scroll horizontally.

If you have a smaller monitor or zoom past 100% to view and edit your Microsoft Word 2010 documents, you may be forced to scroll horizontally as the entire page width cannot be viewed onscreen.

If you need just a few more pixels to keep from having to scroll through your documents horizontally, how about removing the vertical scroll bar? If you don't need it to navigate through your documents via the mouse (remember Page Up and Page Down work as well as your cursor keys), hide it by doing the following:

1. Select the "File" tab in the Ribbon.

2. The Microsoft Office Backstage View appears. Click the "Options" button.

(Or instead of steps 1 and 2, press Alt + T, then the letter O.)

3. The "Word Options" dialog box appears. Click "Advanced" in the left pane.

4. In the right pane, underneath "Display" (you may have to scroll down), uncheck "Show vertical scroll bar".

5. Click "OK" on the bottom-right of the dialog box to close it.

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Google Chrome - View and Manage Your Tabs in a Vertical List

SUMMARY: Manage tabs in Google Chrome via a popup with the "Vertical Tabs" extension.

If you open many tabs in Google Chrome, unless you have a very wide monitor or browser window extending multiple monitors, you cannot view the page titles of each tab in their entireties onscreen. While you can hover over a tab to view one full title, if you need to manage your tabs, wouldn't it be nice if there was a way to view all titles simultaneously?

The "VerticalTabs" extension for Google Chrome allows you to manage your tabs in a different way, via a vertical list you can display as a popup with the click of a button. Once opened you can rearrange tabs in the list, close tabs, or if you have a lot of tabs opened, search for opened tabs.

Managing tabs in Google Chrome via the "VerticalTabs" extension

To install:

1. From Google Chrome, visit the "VerticalTabs" page.

2. Click the "Install" button.

Installing the "VerticalTabs" extension

Once installed, to open the list of tabs vertically in a popup, just click the new VerticalTabs button that appears in the Toolbar.

You can configure the extension by right-clicking the button and selecting "Options". Change the width of the popup, adjust the title line size, and toggle whether or not the number of tabs should appear in the button. You can also see keyboard shortcuts that work when viewing the popup.

Configuring the "VerticalTabs" extension for Google Chrome

This tip was written regarding Google Chrome v9.0.597.47 beta and the "VerticalTabs" extension v2.0.1 running on a Windows Vista machine. Features, information, and screenshots are subject to change between versions and operating systems.

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