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[William Smith]

I have a Word 2002 document which is basically a weekly
calander that I fill in each week with my schedule. The
document is getting long now and I'm tired of opening it
and having to scroll down to my last entry so I can add
the following weeks schedule. Is there a way to set Word
2002 up so that when I open this document the cursor will
go to the place of my last entry?

I think Excel does this, but haven't been able to figure
out how to get Word to do it.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can go to the end of the document using Control+End or to the last edit
with Shift+F5. You can automate this by saving an AutoOpen macro that
performs these functions, but if the macro is saved in the document, you'll
get a macro warning when you try to open it, so it will actually save you
keystrokes/mouse clicks just to press the shortcut keys yourself.

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[Graham Mayor]

You can, however, save the autoopen macro in the document template and it
should work just as well - and without the security warning.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Unless there is no document template; my guess is that the document the OP
is using is based on Normal.dot, and I'd be loath to add that kind of macro
to Normal.dot.

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[Graham Mayor]

I understand your concern, but in practice having autoopen in normal.dot to
take you to the last edit is fairly innocuous. I use the following autoopen
in my own normal.dot

Sub AutoOpen()
ActiveWindow.Caption = ActiveDocument.FullName
'puts path and filename in Title bar

ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdPrintView
'forces print layout view

Application.GoBack
'Take you to the last edit

'Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdStory
'or to the end of the document
End Sub

The last two lines are alternatives.
You can swap them as

'Application.GoBack
Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdStory

if you prefer to go to the end of the document rather than the last edit.

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