How to get to top of long messages in MacBook Air without endless scrolling?
Hi,
How to get to top of long messages in MacBook Air without endless scrolling? More maddeningly, during scrolling it often and randomly jumps back to the end and thus you are starting over!
Alas, just repeating the simple question below, from 6 yrs ago... and the answer that does not work….
Mr.MacDr. Author. User level: Level 1. 6 points
Script to automatically scroll to the top of an iMessage history
So here is my question:
Basically I need some kind of Script or something that will indefinitely scroll up until I force it to stop. This way I can start the script and come back a day or 2 later and export the conversation history as a PDF. Is this possible, and if so does anyone know what this script would look like?
Thanks for your help! -Nik
MacBook, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3). Posted on Mar 26, 2018 12:59 PM
BobHarris. User level: Level 9. 52,782 points
Mar 31, 2018 6:33 PM in response to Mr.MacDr.
How about
- fn+Left_Arrow - Start of page
- fn+Right_Arrow - End of page
- fn+Up_Arrow -> Page up
- fn+Down_Arrow -> Page down
<Mac keyboard shortcuts - Apple Support>
Unfortunately, the above solution does not work on a MacBook Air as it says. I find this so often on these forums that the information is somehow incorrect, from people who often are considered, or consider themselves, experts. Fn + Left Arrow and Fn + Left Arrow (is this correct way of translating fn + Left underline? Arrow?) can be used as home and end buttons, but this does not work in messages, maybe in other applications. Perhaps the problem here is that experts just thinking they know without actually trying it? - Indicated in answer starting with “How about”…. I have found innumerable times that the model/year makes a difference in troubleshooting. I find statements like “go to the apple and click preferences” when there is no preferences choice there. But in this case my 2023 and 2020 MacBook Airs, both agree there is no preferences and Command + Left Arrow and Fn + Left Arrow buttons do not resolve the issue of text scrolling.
Thank you for any help here, - Neal
