Do documents have to open at the beginning in Word 2004?

[Eòin]

I am editing a medium sized document - 20,000 + words. In a different
wp application it works like this ->

If I am part way through and save the document, when I re-open the
document it opens right where the cursor is - and I just continue
editing. If I want to look at the beginning I just click on the
appropriate icon at the foot of the page - and to return to the cursor
press the "home" key in the "inverted T" direction keys on the Mac
keyboard. Very useful.

OK - so how do I do it in Word 2004? (Mac OS 10.4.10 / Powerbook G4).
Word insists on opening documents with the cursor positioned at the
beginning - and then I have to hunt through 40+ pages to find the
place where I last was editing.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

OK - so how do I do it in Word 2004? (Mac OS 10.4.10 / Powerbook G4).
Word insists on opening documents with the cursor positioned at the
beginning - and then I have to hunt through 40+ pages to find the
place where I last was editing.

By default, Shift-F5 or CMD-OPT-z, but you can assign any shortcut you
want to the GoBack command using Tools/Customize/Customize Keyboard...

 

[Eòin]

By default, Shift-F5 or CMD-OPT-z, but you can assign any shortcut you
want to the GoBack command using Tools/Customize/Customize Keyboard...

Many thanks - on the PBook fn-Shift-F5 works fine.

Eòin

 

[CyberTaz]

Just to expand on John's post, the feature "remembers" the last 5 (I
believe) edit locations, so you can use the command successively to step
backward - it also remembers those locations while the file is actually
closed, so the next session you can return to right here you left off in the
previous session.

You might also want to explore the Browse By feature located at the bottom
of the vertical scroll bar. The round button between the sets of double
arrows gives you a palette of 12 browse by options.
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HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

By default, Shift-F5 or CMD-OPT-z, but you can assign any shortcut you
want to the GoBack command using Tools/Customize/Customize Keyboard...

Many thanks - on the PBook fn-Shift-F5 works fine.

Eòin

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Bob:

Technically, it remembers the last five locations, but it "saves" only the
most recent of them.

So a freshly-opened document will have only one "previous editing location"
in it. But as soon as you start working on it, Word will remember the last
five places you've been.

Cheers

Just to expand on John's post, the feature "remembers" the last 5 (I
believe) edit locations, so you can use the command successively to step
backward - it also remembers those locations while the file is actually
closed, so the next session you can return to right here you left off in the
previous session.

You might also want to explore the Browse By feature located at the bottom
of the vertical scroll bar. The round button between the sets of double
arrows gives you a palette of 12 browse by options.

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[CyberTaz]

Obviously an astute observation of faulty wording on my part:0) I think I
meant to write "...remembers *the last of*..." but apparently committed a
sin of omission Thanks for the correction.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Bob:

Did you catch the erudite Monsieur Huggan's new bug?

I think he's working on a PPC, and there, if you set five positions, it
"forgets" position 2. I am working on Intel, and for me it seems able to
remember only four!

A wee insect, methinks...

Obviously an astute observation of faulty wording on my part:0) I think I
meant to write "...remembers *the last of*..." but apparently committed a
sin of omission Thanks for the correction.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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[CyberTaz]

I don't really use it to the full extent - seldom back up more than 2
positions. Out of curiosity I just gave it a shot by simply going to one
spot after another and entering a digit from 5-1 at each stop. In my case it
took me from 1>2>3>4 but not back to 5 (original starting point). Instead it
just looped me back to 1 & back through the *4* most recent.

I guess it's still worth mentioning that Browse By can be set to Browse by
Edits enabling the same navigation by way of the dbl arrow buttons. It works
the same way [understandably, as it's tied to the GoBack command, I assume].

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[CyberTaz]

As a follow-up, I just tried the same experiment in Word 2003 with the same
result - Shift+F5 retraces the last *4* edits. I could have sworn that it
was *5* once upon a time.

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Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

I don't really use it to the full extent - seldom back up more than 2
positions. Out of curiosity I just gave it a shot by simply going to one
spot after another and entering a digit from 5-1 at each stop. In my case
it
took me from 1>2>3>4 but not back to 5 (original starting point). Instead
it
just looped me back to 1 & back through the *4* most recent.

I guess it's still worth mentioning that Browse By can be set to Browse by
Edits enabling the same navigation by way of the dbl arrow buttons. It
works
the same way [understandably, as it's tied to the GoBack command, I
assume].

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

Hi Bob:

Did you catch the erudite Monsieur Huggan's new bug?

I think he's working on a PPC, and there, if you set five positions, it
"forgets" position 2. I am working on Intel, and for me it seems able to
remember only four!

A wee insect, methinks...

 

[Clive Huggan]

Don't encourage him, Bob -- underneath it all, he only wants to tell the
world he's still in lurv with his Intel-powered MacBook...

But it will pass ...

CH
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I don't really use it to the full extent - seldom back up more than 2
positions. Out of curiosity I just gave it a shot by simply going to one
spot after another and entering a digit from 5-1 at each stop. In my case it
took me from 1>2>3>4 but not back to 5 (original starting point). Instead it
just looped me back to 1 & back through the *4* most recent.

I guess it's still worth mentioning that Browse By can be set to Browse by
Edits enabling the same navigation by way of the dbl arrow buttons. It works
the same way [understandably, as it's tied to the GoBack command, I assume].

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

Hi Bob:

Did you catch the erudite Monsieur Huggan's new bug?

I think he's working on a PPC, and there, if you set five positions, it
"forgets" position 2. I am working on Intel, and for me it seems able to
remember only four!

A wee insect, methinks...

 

[John McGhie]

I could have sworn it was "Five" too, but I never before counted it, simply
too the word of the documentation for it.

I think what they are trying to say is "There are five tokens maintained in
the file by Word: the "current" cursor position and the four previous ones.
Only the current one is written to disk on a Save, the others exist only in
memory."

Which apparently mean we get only four marked positions

I have a macro that saves the position of the insertion point as a bookmark
at each save. I find this more reliable, in that before closing a document
I often scroll it just to check things, so the cursor position on close is
of less interest than the position at the last "change".

Cheers

As a follow-up, I just tried the same experiment in Word 2003 with the same
result - Shift+F5 retraces the last *4* edits. I could have sworn that it
was *5* once upon a time.

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