Getting back to insertion point

[patrick j]

Hi

For a very long time I used Nisus Writer on the classic Mac OS. It had one
rather excellent thing (amongst many others) and I'm wondering if Word will
do this or similar.

Quite often when I am writing something I want to have a look at some other
part, maybe two or three pages away so I scroll up or down to see what I
wrote at that point.

Having read that bit, now I want to go back to the insertion point. With
Nisus Writer if you pressed the 'Enter' key it would automatically scroll
to the line that contained the insertion point and then very briefly
highlight that line.

I can't see any way to do this in Microsoft Word. I know very well about
the shift F5, which is very useful for taking me to a previous edit point
but that is a different activity from that which I'm looking for.

I know that perhaps a more intelligent way to go scrolling about is to
split the window in two, but it is not something I'm in the habit of doing.
Maybe I need to get into that habit

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi Patrick,

Actually, this should work. If the insertion point is still at the other
place, then say, cursor right will move the insertion point and the doc
will automatically jump you back to where something is happening. The
enter key can also be used, but inserts a weird character here.

Other possibilities:

Get in the habit of typing space backspace so that you can use the
shift-F5 route.

The Navigation Pane might also help you out--shows thumbnails or all the
headings in a clickable list like bookmarks in a PDF file, if you use
headings (small fixable glitch that sometimes it shows extra things that
are not headings)

Splitting the window horizontally is very annoying, but you can use
Window | New Window to get two full-size views of the same document, for
side-by-side comparison of different parts.

 

[CyberTaz]

You could just use left/right arrow, although it does move the insertion
point one character & doesn't cause any highlighting... Having never used
Nissus Writer I'm wondering how it knew to *not* break the line you were on.

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

 

[patrick j]

Hi Patrick,

Actually, this should work. If the insertion point is still at the other
place, then say, cursor right will move the insertion point and the doc
will automatically jump you back to where something is happening. The
enter key can also be used, but inserts a weird character here.

Thanks. That does work today However bizarrely it wasn't working last
night. I would press arrow key to go forward one character and the document
wasn't scrolling. It is now though.

With Nisus Writer it was useful to have the whole line briefly highlighted.

 

[patrick j]

You could just use left/right arrow, although it does move the insertion
point one character & doesn't cause any highlighting... Having never used
Nissus Writer I'm wondering how it knew to *not* break the line you were on.

From memory the "enter" key wouldn't insert a line break with Nisus Writer
(classic), it had just this one function. However I will say that it was
very useful indeed

The left/right arrow does work. It didn't last night oddly enough, but it
does today. I still miss not having the whole line highlighted as with
Nisus Writer (classic) which was very useful.

 

[CyberTaz]

Well, if you really like the highlighting - although you'll have to deselect
on your own - use either Shift+Home or Shift +End rather than the arrow key.
It won't select the entire line but it should give you the "recognition
factor" I believe you're looking for

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

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Patrick:

It depends which "View" you are in. Some will scroll the insertion point
into view, some do not.

I can't remember which is which...

Cheers

Thanks. That does work today However bizarrely it wasn't working last
night. I would press arrow key to go forward one character and the document
wasn't scrolling. It is now though.

With Nisus Writer it was useful to have the whole line briefly highlighted.

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