How to enable and use Panning Hand in Microsoft Office apps

If you want to recover the Panoramic hand appear in Microsoft office applications such as Word, this guide will show you how to activate and use Panning Hand in Microsoft Office applications, so you can scroll through the pages differently.

Panning Hand function in Microsoft Office applications

Typically, you can scroll down or up with the scroll wheel on your mouse, or you can use the scroll bar on the right side of your screen. However, if you want to use a different method to scroll up, down, right and left in Word or other applications, Panning Hand can do the work for you.

By activating this function, you can see a hand-like icon on your screen. Later, you can use the hand icon as the mouse cursor, click somewhere, and move your mouse up or down to scroll the page accordingly.

For some people, this panoramic hand feature seems cumbersome and time consuming. However, it gained popularity in the old version of Microsoft Office. Therefore, if you want to recover it, you need to follow this tutorial.

Note: We used the Word screenshot in this tutorial. However, you can use the same steps to find the functionality in other applications, if available.

Enable pan hand in Microsoft Office applications

To activate Panning Hand in Microsoft Office applications, follow these steps:

1. Open Word on your computer.
2. Click it Customize the quick access toolbar button.
3. Select the No more orders option.
4. To select Ribbon missing order from the drop-down list.
5. Find Panoramic hand and select it.
6. Click it Add button.
7. Click it Okay button to save.
8. Click the new Panning Hand icon to activate and scroll.

To learn more about these steps, keep reading.

At first, you need to open Word on your computer. Since, by default, the Panoramic main option is not activated, you must activate it.

To do this, click on the Customize the quick access toolbar icon visible in the ribbon. After that select No more orders from the list.

You should now extend the Choose commands in drop down list and select Ribbon missing commands option.

Then find out Panoramic hand in the list, select it and click on the Add button.

Now it should be visible on the right side. If yes, you can click on the Okay to save the change. Next, a new icon (Pan Hand) should appear in the ribbon.

If you want to use it, you must activate it first. To do this, click on this icon so that you can see the hand-shaped icon on your screen.

Now you can click somewhere and move your mouse up or down to scroll through the pages.

To deactivate the Panning Hand function, simply cancel the steps mentioned above.

That’s all! I hope this tutorial will help you.

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