In what exactly the SCROOL LOCK On the ivories is Useful??

In what exactly the SCROOL LOCK On the ivories is Useful??

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But the scroll lock is a hold over from the 60 and 70 (pre PC days) when everything be done in what we would name DOS mode today. If you attempted to access a long file, the top would scroll bad the screen. The Scroll lock be used to stop the text from anyone able to scroll bad the top of screen. The Pause and the Break switch are also left over from that time. Also adjectives the F1-F12 keys are not here from that time.



Today, with almost everything run contained by Windows, the Scroll Lock key is once in a blue moon used. There are a few programs that assign functions to it, just because it is an extra, available knob (like Excel).
Hi,



In Microsoft Excel, the scroll lock is a useful navigation selection.



Typically, with scroll lock bad, you use the arrow keys to move the involved cell pointer around a fixed worksheet. The active cell location change with respectively arrow key pressed.



When you use the scroll lock pick, the active cell pointer remains contained by the current cell and the sheet moves rows or columns depending on the direction of the arrow key pressed.



This pick is very adjectives when you want to view other areas of the spreadsheet in need losing your current active cell position.