Office Products Remembering Their Place In Workspace

[Five By Five]

I don't exactly when---probably recently--- but Adobe made it so that the
Acrobat (Reader too?) application would remember the place in the PDF
(page/view) where a user was when the document was closed. When the user
re-opens the PDF, he's back where he last closed it. Beautiful!!

(I now wish that Adobe would put in a capability to Acrobat that allows
users to save the results of multi-document filesystem-wide searches! How
obvious can this be???)

For nearly 30 years, we've had Word and Excel...maybe 20 years for
PowerPoint and Access.

And I don't know that Word ever opens a doc that goes right to the place
where the user was last working. I don't remember when I saw my first Word
interface...25 years ago?

Anyway, it would be nice if any PowerPoint prez doc would open up and show
me the last view it had when it closed. That does NOT mean slide #1 in
whatever view there was. If it was slide 55, then it opens on slide 55,
with the view that was there when it closed.

Or did I miss this configurable option somewhere?

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Word: Shift + F5

 

[Beth Melton]

There is no option for this (and never has been) but it is a widely
requested feature. Excel already remembers where you were last, JoAnne
pointed out you can use Shift+F5 for Word, however this is a bit buggy in
Word 2007, and unfortunately there really isn't anything you can do for PPT
other than create some macros that would need to be added to each file. IOW,
program your own "return" procedure.

~Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

There is no option for this (and never has been) but it is a widely
requested feature. Excel already remembers where you were last, JoAnne
pointed out you can use Shift+F5 for Word, however this is a bit buggy in
Word 2007, and unfortunately there really isn't anything you can do for PPT
other than create some macros that would need to be added to each file.

Better bet: put the macros in an add-in that traps the PresentationOpen event,
checks the .Tags of the presentation to see if there's one that records the
last open position and if so, goes to the slide recorded there.

The only thing each presentation would need to "carry" would be the tag (as
near weightless as makes no nevermind).

More about event handlers in PPT here:

Make PPT respond to events
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00004.htm



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