Is there a way in Word98 to go back to where you were reading?

[Gary Goldberg]

Is it possible for Word98 to know where you were last in a long file so
that when you open the file again you go to that spot?

 

[Clive Huggan]

Gary,

Key Command-Option-z. In open documents, this command successively rotates
through the last four places where text was typed or the insertion point was
placed; in a newly opened document it goes to the last position of the
insertion point before the document was last closed.

-- Clive Huggan
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[rafael montserrat]

Clive,

I have tried Key Command-Option-z ( Option z Right? ) in a word 98
document both open and newly opened with no success. This would be a
valuable function for what I do.

Rafael

OS 9.2.2
Word 98
G3 Wallstreet PowerBook

 

[rafael montserrat]

Clive,

What I get with Option z is this: ‡

Rafael


Clive,

I have tried Key Command-Option-z ( Option z Right? ) in a word 98
document both open and newly opened with no success. This would be a
valuable function for what I do.

Rafael

OS 9.2.2
Word 98
G3 Wallstreet PowerBook

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Rafael,

It's not Option z, it's Command (Apple key) Option z.

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[John McGhie [MVP]]

Well, *I* thought the command was Shift + F5, which is the Windows keystroke
for the same thing. Try that You must be clicked in the document
before you do it. On close, Word deletes all except the most recent edit
marker, so you only have one position marked in a document that has just
been opened.

Cheers

Clive,

I have tried Key Command-Option-z ( Option z Right? ) in a word 98
document both open and newly opened with no success. This would be a
valuable function for what I do.

Rafael

OS 9.2.2
Word 98
G3 Wallstreet PowerBook

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[rafael montserrat]

Hi John, Beth & Clive

'Command Option z' is what works. Good one.

I read it in Clive's Post as: "Key Command: 'Option + z'" rather than "Key:
'Command + Option + z'".


Re: postings and threads.

Is Beth's posting not included in John's posting (this one) because of time
difference?

John Thursday, October 16, 2003 11:28 PM (22:28:51 +1000)
Beth Wednesday, October 15, 2003 9:57 PM

That's a 14 hour time difference. Probably has something to do with time of
Postings.

Thanks, Rafael

 

[Gary Goldberg]

Hi Rafael,

It's not Option z, it's Command (Apple key) Option z.

OK thanks all, but in any case there's no way one can save a document
so that when you open it again it automatically goes to where you
left off? You have to use a key combination when you open it again?

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Rafael,

No, it had nothing to do with the time difference. It has to do with where
in the thread of individual messages you are when you hit reply or, rather,
which message you choose to reply to. My post wasn't included in John's
because he was reading a previous post (that didn't include mine) when he
hit reply. In other words, he wasn't replying to my post; he was replying
to yours.

John tends to work offline, while he is riding the train to or from work (in
Australia). So he downloads a bunch of posts, goes offline, replies to
them, and then later on when he next goes online (which might be an hour or
several hours later), he sends them all off. He probably didn't even see my
post before he sent his.

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>

 

[Clive Huggan]

John, info Rafael,

Forgive the contents of my old memory -- I've used Command-Option-z since
Word for the Mac had its own commands (from version 2? -- I can't remember
version 1) that weren't replicated on DOS, and have not been replicated in
Windows because Windows does not have a Command key.

Shift-F5 does work, of course -- and oddly, when I'm occasionally in Word
for Windows that's what I use. But I keep using Command-Option-z on the Mac
because it can be keyed with one hand. And I need to keep the other hand
free to scratch my head, thinking!

Rafael, I've taken note of your comment:

I read it in Clive's Post as: "Key Command: 'Option + z'" rather than "Key:
'Command + Option + z'".

... and I'll check my wording to reduce ambiguity in the new version of "Bend
Word to your Will" which should be posted at
www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/Bend/BendWord.htm before too long.

--Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
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building.)
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[Clive Huggan]

Gary,

I seem to recall, the best part of a year ago, somebody in
microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs asking this question. I recall
vaguely that someone proposed a macro to do it. If you do a Google newsgroup
search (http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search?hl=en), you might find
it.

(I never followed it because I prefer not to have macros that operate
automatically when a document is opened, and the Command-Option-z keystroke
combination is so easy to remember because it forms a compact triangle.)

-- Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
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* If anyone is still reading down this far, here's a question: is it time
for you to back up your Normal template and all your Word settings files?
(This should be on a medium other than the internal hard drive and, if you
also want to protect against theft and fire, stored in a different
building.)
============================================================

 

[Gary Goldberg]

OK, thanks Clive. I guess what I should have asked is "Is there
something in the Preferences that I could set so that the next
time I opened the file it would open on the page I last
visited.

I don't know anything about macros.

G

Gary,

I seem to recall, the best part of a year ago, somebody in
microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs asking this question. I recall
vaguely that someone proposed a macro to do it. If you do a Google newsgroup
search (http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search?hl=en), you might find
it.

(I never followed it because I prefer not to have macros that operate
automatically when a document is opened, and the Command-Option-z keystroke
combination is so easy to remember because it forms a compact triangle.)

-- Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
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for you to back up your Normal template and all your Word settings files?
(This should be on a medium other than the internal hard drive and, if you
also want to protect against theft and fire, stored in a different
building.)
============================================================

... [is there] no way one can save a document
so that when you open it again it automatically goes to where you
left off? You have to use a key combination when you open it again?

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Gary,

Well that question at least has a definitive answer: No .

--
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Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>

 

[Clive Huggan]

OK, thanks Clive. I guess what I should have asked is "Is there
something in the Preferences that I could set so that the next
time I opened the file it would open on the page I last
visited.

No -- sorry! Only the Command-Option-z or Shift-F5 keystrokes if you don't
want to prepare a macro.

I don't know anything about macros.

Stick around! I don't use them a great deal, and my expertise in VBA (the
present Word macro language) is pretty low, but some of our more learned
colleagues have shown us some beauties in this newsgroup!

-- Clive

G

Gary,

I seem to recall, the best part of a year ago, somebody in
microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs asking this question. I recall
vaguely that someone proposed a macro to do it. If you do a Google newsgroup
search (http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search?hl=en), you might find
it.

(I never followed it because I prefer not to have macros that operate
automatically when a document is opened, and the Command-Option-z keystroke
combination is so easy to remember because it forms a compact triangle.)

-- Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
* Please post all comments to the newsgroup for the benefit of others who
may be interested.
* If you post a question, keep re-visiting the newsgroup for a few days
after the first response comes in. Sometimes it takes a few responses before
the best or complete solution is proposed, and sometimes you'll be asked for
further information so that a better answer can be provided.
* Remove "the" from my address above if you need to send an e-mail to me
directly (although that would be exceptional). Please note that e-mails
with an attachment will be automatically rejected.
* If anyone is still reading down this far, here's a question: is it time
for you to back up your Normal template and all your Word settings files?
(This should be on a medium other than the internal hard drive and, if you
also want to protect against theft and fire, stored in a different
building.)
============================================================

... [is there] no way one can save a document
so that when you open it again it automatically goes to where you
left off? You have to use a key combination when you open it again?