a "Bookmarker" for word documents

[dbplists]

I am CONSTANTLY reading very long documents in word. When reading such
documents - I often have to jump back and forth.

Is there a "bookmarker" or "placeholder" button that I can use to
record the current location. Then... if I navigate the cursor far
away... I can just click it and it'll go back to that position?

If not - any ideas on how to program it? The extent of my windows
programming are some simple VB forms and scripts (in Excel and some
standalone programs - and that was a long time ago). But I'd like this
to be a button that can show up on a toolbar.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

-dbp

 

[Greg]

This is something I just through together. I think Jay Freedman once
showed me a better way, but it is at home.

Assign the two macros to a toolbar or short cut keys and your off to
the races:

Sub FastMark()
Selection.Bookmarks.Add "FastMark", Selection.Range
End Sub
Sub Fastback()
ActiveDocument.GoTo wdGoToBookmark, , , "FastMark"
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("FastMark").Delete
End Sub

 

[Doug Robbins]

If you were to assign a macro containing the following code to a button on a
toolbar, or to the keyboard, every time it is run, it will insert a bookmark
with the name BM### where ### is a number that increments by 1 for each
bookmark that is inserted:

ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Name:="BM" &
Format(ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Count + 1, "000"), _ Range:=Selection.Range

Then you can use Edit>GoTo>Bookmark to return to the bookmark of your
choice.
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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Jezebel]

Depending on how you're doing this jumping around, Shift-F5 might be
sufficient -- it remembers the last three locations, so it works well if
you're reading a core section and need to drill-down and return to where you
were.