Browsing through notebook view.

[Joseph Chamberlain, DDS]

Dear members:

I have recently posted a question about this subject but the solution that
was offered to me didn't seem to work.

I have created several word notebooks and they have grown to have many
different tabs. Navigating through these tabs can be quite time consuming
and I would like to know if there is a key or combination of key strokes
that would allow me to move up and down between the tabbed sections.

Also, is there a limit as to how many tabbed sections one single Word
notebook can have ?

Thank you for your help.

Best regards,

Joseph

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Joseph:

Yeah. I saw your question. The reason I and everyone else avoided it is
that we didn't know the answer

You can use the Quick Search function, as explained in the Help topic " Use
Quick Search to highlight text in notebook layout view". You will probably
find that this is the most convenient in big documents.

You could try Command + G. This opens the GoTo dialogue. The "Tabs" in
Notebook View are created by document Section Breaks. If you know the
number of the section break you are looking for, you can type the section
number in there and the document will skip to that section.

You can also try Outline View. By setting the Level number in Outline View,
you collapse the text of a document to display only headings at or above the
specified outline level.

To navigate, select some text in the heading that you want, then go back to
Notebook View. The view will repaginate with the selected text at the top
of the screen.

Regrettably, Notebook View is a weird cut-down of the Word document
structure, and many of the navigation tools we expect in Normal and Page
Layout views are disabled in Notebook View.

Sorry: Best we can do.

Cheers

Dear members:

I have recently posted a question about this subject but the solution that
was offered to me didn't seem to work.

I have created several word notebooks and they have grown to have many
different tabs. Navigating through these tabs can be quite time consuming
and I would like to know if there is a key or combination of key strokes
that would allow me to move up and down between the tabbed sections.

Also, is there a limit as to how many tabbed sections one single Word
notebook can have ?

Thank you for your help.

Best regards,

Joseph

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[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi Joseph:

Yeah. I saw your question. The reason I and everyone else avoided it is
that we didn't know the answer

Because we're all such fogey-fied users of Word that no one has experimented
with Notebook Layout much. At least that's the case for me.

However, if you select the little dot between the double arrows and set it
to Section, then the double arrows will switch from tab to tab (because the
tabs are sections, as John said). A quick test here worked.
(additional info: http://daiya.mvps.org/browseobject.htm)

But you want keyboard--So, the command BrowseNext and BrowsePrev should be
equivalent to hitting those little double arrows. That's the same thing JE
McGimpsey recommended, which you said didn't work.

I just got it to work here--but the default command is cmd-page down, and so
on my laptop I had to hold fn-cmd-down arrow for it to work (so at first I
thought it didn't work--because fn-down arrow is Page Down). You can use
Tools | Customize to reassign the keyboard shortcuts for BrowseNext and
BrowsePrev--look under the alphabetical All Commands list.
(additional info: http://daiya.mvps.org/toolscustomize.htm)

It works here, so post back on this thread with details if it doesn't work
for you. The little dot has to be set to Section first.

Once you've got the basics working, it might be a good macro to record the
"set to section and click Next" "set to Section and click Previous", though
I don't know much about macros in Notebook Layout. But I've got a couple of
macros essentially just like that.

Daiya

 

[Joseph Chamberlain, DDS]

Dear John and Daiya:

Thank for the detailed and very helpful answers to my post.

They have addressed my questions and the issues I have been experiencing
with the notebook view. I actually learned different ways to work with it
beyond what I was trying to accomplish.

It is a great thing for users to be able to find the kind of help you offer
here. I am very happy with the opportunity to have access to such
knowledgeable assistant as you offer here and wanted to take the time to
thank you for helping me and all others in this newsgroup.

Thank you very much again for your help.

Best regards,

Joseph

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Dr. Joseph Chamberlain
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

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