Lighting-Fast Scrolling Makes it Hard to Select Text...?

[MarjaE]

I’m not sure if this is LibreOffice, Mac OS, or the combination, but I’m having trouble selecting and moving text. Because of the scrolling.

1. I am trying to select large sections of text. They don’t fit in one window. I need to scroll from one end of the section to the other.

2. I can’t use scrollwheels.

3. I can’t really coordinate both hands.

4. I can scroll by starting at the top of the selection, and dragging off the bottom edge of the window. But it’s lightning-fast, and impossible to control. I may end up selecting 3 pages when I mean to select 1. I then scroll off the top edge to try to get back up. I may end up jumping 6 pages and selecting another 3 pages ending where I meant to begin.

Maybe some of my LibreOffice settings are off…?

[Ratslinger]

I don’t think it’s a setting, just a fast computer. Have you tried something like this: Select the beginning of your selection. Now place a small weight (such as a dozen coins taped together) on the Shift key. Then use the Page Up/Down or Arrow keys to better control your selection. Sure hope this helps.

[oweng]

Please report a bug as while there are quite a number of existing open scroll-related bugs, none describe this behaviour under MacOS. Include a link to any reported bug in a comment back here for others to track. Thanks.