Hide the Vertical and/or Horizontal Scroll Bars

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Hide the Vertical and/or Horizontal Scroll Bars

23 May 2010 10:36 AM
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Menu:  Tools –> Options –> Text Editor –> General –> Display
Versions:  2008,2010
Published:  5/23/2010
Code:  vstipEdit0058

 

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This is another one that falls into the “Not Sure Why It’s There” Category.  Unless you are hurting for real estate on the screen there isn’t any reason I can think of to do this but wanted to throw it in for completeness.

You can go to Tools –> Options –> Text Editor –> General –> Display and deselect the “Vertical scroll bar” and/or “Horizontal scroll bar” to make the scroll bars go away.

 

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  • richm
    15 Aug 2010 9:39 AM

    I need more "real estate", this tip, combined with the status bar trick gives me back about two lines of code.

  • 17 Aug 2010 6:26 AM

    @richm Full Screen Mode (SHIFT + ALT + ENTER) is the way to go or, for dual screens, rip off one of the code windows and maximize it on one of your screens.

    Z

  • Ryan
    10 Dec 2010 12:06 PM

    Is there a way to only hide the horizontal scroll bar when it's unneeded?

  • 11 Dec 2010 7:46 PM

    Hey Ryan :)

    Just uncheck the horizontal scrool bar checkbox and it will be hidden.

  • Ryan
    14 Dec 2010 1:30 PM

    @zainnab Yes, but unfortunately if I uncheck it, the scrollbar remains hidden when I open a document that actually needs it. I wish there was an "auto-hide" option.

  • 12 Jan 2011 8:57 PM

    Good point.  Sadly there isn't an option to hide until needed that I am aware of...

    Z

  • Michael
    7 Jul 2011 6:47 AM

    Actually, I was wanting to hide the scroll bar that I inserted into a web page I was creating. It adds both a Horizontal and a Vertical bar, I only want it to display the Vertical bar? Any idea's?

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