Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog : The Secret of the Mysterious Buttons

These buttons have existed since at least Word 97, yet most people never notice them. What do these mysterious buttons do?

Ooh! Intrigue! And it's less that I didn't know what they did, and more like it was more effort to get down there and click them the right way and not mess other things up. Scrolling ain't easy.

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