Accessing Page view / Continuous view
Somehow I accidentally got into Continuous view (which I never use but had learned about at some point). In order to get back to Page view, I had to come here and do a lot of searching.
It seems much more logical to me for this control to be under the View menu, which was the first place I looked for it; note that zoom controls are under this menu (as well as in the dropdown). Page/Continuous view does not seem to me a "file operation" like opening or saving. Once you know about right-clicking on the menu bar, it's easy enough, but that is hardly intuitive. Could it be put it in the more logical place, probably in the same subsection of the View menu as the zoom controls?
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Zoom affects each of the options
but you can take the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+V
In your particular case (you being in Continuous View):
![Continuous.png]( "Continuous.png")
In reply to In your particular case (you… by Jm6stringer
I find merit in the OP's suggestion (that it at least be under "View").
In reply to In your particular case (you… by Jm6stringer
Thank you for replying. The problem was that the "File Operations" items were not visible on the toolbar. (Again, I don't know how I got into this; maybe I hit some weird key combination by accident). So I did not have this dropdown available, and had to search out the solution, which requires right-clicking on the toolbar to restore "File Operations" -- which, as I said, is much less intuitive than just looking on the View menu.
Once upon a time I think it was decided not to have it under View because GUI design guidelines say that nothing in that menu should actually alter the content of the document, and at the time, changing View did - it was an undoable action with its own place on the undo stack. That's no longer the case. So it could probably be safely added to the View menu indeed.
Not sure what you mean about right-clicking on the menu bar, though, that's not normally necessary or helpful at all. Just use the dropdown menu normally.
In reply to Once upon a time I think it… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you, Marc; I can see why it wasn't put under View in the past, but if that could be done now I think it would be more logical for users. See my reply to jm6stringer above for why I had to right-click the menu bar.
In reply to Thank you, Marc; I can see… by redux02
That is a good point! Why should zoom and view selection be in the File Operations tool bar? I just happen to have file operations always visible, but it certainly would not be the first place I would look for the zoom/view controls.