Opening saved documents where I left off

[Skipper15]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel When I open a previously saved Word document it always opens at the beginning of the document instead of where I left off. With lengthy documents it's a hassle to figure out where I was working last. I don't see anything in Preferences that allows me to change this. What I'm I missing?

 

[John McGhie]

YOU are not missing anything.

Microsoft managed to break the mechanism in the conversion to Word 2008.

Shift + F5 should get you there, but in Word 2008 it's broken.

Word stores the current and previous two cursor locations in the document
while you work. It is supposed to delete the oldest two and store the
current when you close.

Someone did not read the specification right and wrote the code to delete
them ALL. So there is no location saved.

I use a Macro that sets a bookmark at the cursor location on every save.
But in Word 2008 you can't do that because there are no macros.

The best you can do is manually set a bookmark, then use Command + g to go
to the bookmark when you re-open the document.

Sorry

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
When I open a previously saved Word document it always opens at the beginning
of the document instead of where I left off. With lengthy documents it's a
hassle to figure out where I was working last. I don't see anything in
Preferences that allows me to change this. What I'm I missing?

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[Skipper15]

YOU are not missing anything.

>
> Microsoft managed to break the mechanism in the conversion to Word 2008.
>
> Shift + F5 should get you there, but in Word 2008 it's broken.
>
> Word stores the current and previous two cursor locations in the document
> while you work. It is supposed to delete the oldest two and store the
> current when you close.
>
> Someone did not read the specification right and wrote the code to delete
> them ALL. So there is no location saved.
>
> I use a Macro that sets a bookmark at the cursor location on every save.
> But in Word 2008 you can't do that because there are no macros.
>
> The best you can do is manually set a bookmark, then use Command + g to go
> to the bookmark when you re-open the document.
>
> Sorry
>
>
> On 10/12/09 12:48 PM, in article (e-mail address removed)2ac0,
> "[email protected]" wrote:
>
>
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>
> The email below is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
> matters unless I ask you to; or unless you intend to pay!
>
> John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
> McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
> Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410
> +61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]
>
>
>

 

[Clive Huggan]

So I guess Command-Option-z also won't work?? (I can't check because I
haven't "up"graded to Word 2008).

The best you can do is manually set a bookmark, then use Command + g to go
to the bookmark when you re-open the document.

Or key an unusual character such as Option-z just before you close and on
re-opening key Command-f => Option-z

CH

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[John McGhie]

No, it won't. The bookmark that writes is being stripped by the Save
process.

Cheers

So I guess Command-Option-z also won't work?? (I can't check because I
haven't "up"graded to Word 2008).

Or key an unusual character such as Option-z just before you close and on
re-opening key Command-f => Option-z

CH

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McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]