bookmarks

[Corinne Taylor]

What is it? How will it help me? Why doesn't it show on
screen?

Is it used to locate certain areas of a document?

Pesky student wants to know...

 

[Kevin Stecyk]

Corinne,

Try creating some bookmarks and then hitting F5 (go to).

Kevin

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can use bookmarks to set points to go to, but more often they're used in
connection with cross-references, either ones you insert manually ("See page
x") or ones that Word creates when it generates a TOC or index (in which
case it creates the bookmarks as well, and they're hidden).

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[Jay]

bookmarks ...
What is it? How will it help me?

It takes a string of text in your document and gives it a name. For
example, you can use:
Edit >> GoTo >> Bookmark
to jump around in a big document from one bookmark to another.

Different people use bookmarks for different purposes. For example, you can
use bookmarks along with fields for numbering figures and having references
to them by number (e.g., "See Figure 3 for ..."). If figures are inserted,
or rearranged, Word features can update the references without you having
to keep track of it all manually.

Why doesn't it show on screen?

Try
Tools >> Options >> View
and under "Show" check "Bookmarks". Then, square brackets indicate the
bounds of each bookmark. (These square brackets don't print.)