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Alex Hoffman is currently a high school English teacher in the New York City public schools. It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it. (Sept 2003)

Option-Click in Scroll Bars for Jump Scrolling

In Mac OS X in general, and thus in most native Mac OS X applications, hold down the Option key and click anywhere in a window's scroll bar to jump to that spot (rather than scrolling one screen). If you like this behavior, you can make it the default in the Appearance preference pane. For "Click in the scroll bar to:" select "Jump to here."

Written by Adam C. Engst