How to move back and forth in large documents?

[Irritated Word user]

After confident use of Office 2003 for editing long documents and Master
document I find there is little or no help on this in Office 2007. I am
puzzled as to how poor the search for help is in returning relevant
information. Searches for advice on moving around long documents produce 100
items of mostly irrelevant information, or unhelpful suggestions about
scrolling. Although both a Forward and Back button appear to exist they don't
actually seem to work. Does anyone have suggestions about how to make this
easier?

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi

How did you used to naviagte in 2003? All the methods I used to use still
work in 2007 (though I completely agree - the help doesn't let you in on
this secret!). See here for an article about 2003:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP051893871033.aspx

Hope that helps

Lucy

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

I'm not clear on your quest on this one What steps from Word 2003 for moving in a document were you using that you're trying to
locate in Word 2007?

There wasn't any directed effort on the often unpredictable Master Documents feature. The Master Document group appears on the
Outlining tab in Word 2007 when you choose the 'outline' view from either the View tab or the Status bar. (Show document button
uncovers additional ribbon choices). You can also add the Master Document items to the Quick Access Toolbar.

For searching on basic topics you may find you get better results at times by setting, at the bottom of the help dialog, the choice
to only search the offline content.

You may find one of the guides from
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx
useful for 'was/is' or 'where'd-it-go' searches.

Also you may want to try the 'Search Commands' Lab tool from Microsoft's http://officelabs.com


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After confident use of Office 2003 for editing long documents and Master
document I find there is little or no help on this in Office 2007. I am
puzzled as to how poor the search for help is in returning relevant
information. Searches for advice on moving around long documents produce 100
items of mostly irrelevant information, or unhelpful suggestions about
scrolling. Although both a Forward and Back button appear to exist they don't
actually seem to work. Does anyone have suggestions about how to make this
easier?<<
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Irritated Word user]

Hi Bob and Lucy
Thanks both for your responses. Apart from the suggestions you have made the
way I used to move around in the long document (it is a Master document) was
to use several arrow buttons. I think they might have been called 'Back' and
'Forward', an arrow pointing left and another pointing right, sadly I did not
think about them too much before installation of Office 2007. They were
really useful, for example if I wanted to cut text, move back to my Table of
Contents and browse headings for another place to paste text. Although I have
added them to the top bar, they no longer seem to work. This was also better
than having an outline or document map which took up space on the window, and
had to keep opeining and closing it. And they seemed to work in normal view
so I could see what would be printed. I find scrolling lots of pages and GO
TO do not help if I am not sure where I want to move to. If I could find the
equivalent buttons and get them to work in normal view I would certainly be a
lot less irritated!

 

[Bogey Man]

Hi

How did you used to naviagte in 2003? All the methods I used to use still
work in 2007 (though I completely agree - the help doesn't let you in on
this secret!). See here for an article about 2003:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP051893871033.aspx

Hope that helps

Lucy
--
Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au


"Irritated Word user" <Irritated Word (e-mail address removed)>
wrote in message

There are as usual a few ways to do the same thing in Word. Not knowing
exactly what you want to do, I'll take a guess. I'm learning Word 2007 and
am finding that some of the old tricks to navigate around a large document
work as they did in previous versions that I have tried.

To go back and forth between two points that you are editing you can use
Shif +F5 to toggle between the two points.

You can also insert a bookmark at each point and use the links feature on
the toolbar and choose the bookmark to go to.

You can also split the screen and have two different parts of the document
shown on the screen at the same time and just click in the "window" that you
want to work in.

I've only been using Word 2007 for 2 weeks now and those are the methods
that I have found. I hope that one of them suites you.

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi

I'm afraid I never use Master Documents (my understanding has always been
that it's a really quick & easy way to corrupt documents ;-) ) so can't
help. Perhaps you could try posting over in the Word group? Be sure to
include all the detail you can.

Lucy

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

I'm not clear on which feature you may have been using in the prior version. If it was the forward/back arrows in the Web toolbar,
for example, those can still be added to the Quick Access toolbar and with a Master Document open in Word 2007 the Outlining tab
that appears in Outline view has the Master/Subdocument feature set.

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Hi Bob and Lucy
Thanks both for your responses. Apart from the suggestions you have made the
way I used to move around in the long document (it is a Master document) was
to use several arrow buttons. I think they might have been called 'Back' and
'Forward', an arrow pointing left and another pointing right, sadly I did not
think about them too much before installation of Office 2007. They were
really useful, for example if I wanted to cut text, move back to my Table of
Contents and browse headings for another place to paste text. Although I have
added them to the top bar, they no longer seem to work. This was also better
than having an outline or document map which took up space on the window, and
had to keep opeining and closing it. And they seemed to work in normal view
so I could see what would be printed. I find scrolling lots of pages and GO
TO do not help if I am not sure where I want to move to. If I could find the
equivalent buttons and get them to work in normal view I would certainly be a
lot less irritated! >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*