hi ag,

thanks for that, but i don't actually have a mouse full stop - i much prefer using my wacom and it stop the rsi / cts i was having.....

as i wrote up / down arrows expand / contract tl nicely, but if i'm 'zoomed in' on the tl and want to simply scroll it left or right i don't seem to have any kb combination to do so.....

your penultimate sentence, re: Ctrl-Left/Right to jump etc., work just fine as well. but still no scroll.

"i know you can use the mouse wheel, but i use a tablet for work.....II don't know if this will work on others, but on my Dell laptop, moving your finger on the very right side of the built-in touch pad will scroll vertically. Moving your finger right & left on the bottom of the touch pad will scroll horizontally.

Good Luck!
...Jerry

Edit: I just re-read the posts here, and now I'm somewhat confused. The touch pad "trick" noted above operates just like the scroll wheel on my mouse for vertical movement. In other words, if I have timeline focus in Vegas it will zoom the timeline. If I'm in my browser, it will scroll the panel.

Shift + mouse whee: scrolls timeline quickly
Ctrl+Shift + mouse wheel: scrolls timeline by frame

HTH

Piotr

thanks jerry - unfortunately my tablet doesn't have that functionality....

and thanks piotr - but i'm NOT using a mouse

i can do everything else BUT scroll t/l with either kb shortcuts or pen - most annoying....

Oh, you want to scroll the timeline, but not move the cursor, as if you had a mouse, and dragged the scroll bar at the bottom of the timeline?

exactly ag!

of course i can use the bottom scroll bar, which is what i'm doing, but it would be really useful to have a kb short cut for this - just like for almost everything else ;-(

Now that i've pondered this a bit ... in Windows in general there are pretty much never any keyboard commands that scroll windows. It just doesn't happen. Effectively anything that does end up scrolling does so because you have moved the cursor (whatever that may be in the given program) outside the current window and the program then scrolls itself to put the cursor back into view.

Subtle distinction i suppose. But, you can see this happening in Vegas simply by holding the left or right arrow keys down long enough. When the cursor gets close enough to the edge of the screen, the scroll bar moves. In your word processor of choice, The Page Up & Page Down keys don't scroll the window. They move the cursor up & down, and then the window moves to keep up with the new location.

So, it's not a Vegas thing. Windows in general just doesn't have this function.

So, how about the Page Up & Page Down keys? They move the cursor left & right to the next timeline division line (the light grey vertical lines). Hold them down and you end up scrolling left or right. The farther out your view is zoomed, the faster you'll move.