Returning to previous location in Word document

[meredith140]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

This question was asked for the Office 2004. I now have the 2008 version and none of the solutions for 2004 seem to help. The F5 does not work after a document is closed. The Op-Com-Z, (which I used in the Office 98 version) does not work at all. My documents contain around 600 pages and I can't figure how to get back to where I was working.

I have a Mac OS 10.5.5 and it always open the Word documents on page one.

Anything new out there to help???

 

[Elliott Roper]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

This question was asked for the Office 2004. I now have the 2008 version and
none of the solutions for 2004 seem to help. The F5 does not work after a
document is closed. The Op-Com-Z, (which I used in the Office 98 version)
does not work at all. My documents contain around 600 pages and I can't
figure how to get back to where I was working.

I have a Mac OS 10.5.5 and it always open the Word documents on page one.

Anything new out there to help???

Would you accept a low tech solution?

Insert something unique, like /\ when you leave.
Search for it when you return.

Yes Yes Yes, it is an ugly hack. It works.

 

[MC]

Anything new out there to help???

Would you accept a low tech solution?

Insert something unique, like /\ when you leave.
Search for it when you return.

Yes Yes Yes, it is an ugly hack. It works.[/QUOTE]

After all these years you'd think MS would offer this as an option in
Prefs.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Would you accept a low tech solution?

Insert something unique, like /\ when you leave.
Search for it when you return.

Yes Yes Yes, it is an ugly hack. It works.

Well, you could use autocorrect to trigger something more beautiful... ;-)

Like one of your much-loved ligatures, Elliott!

But then one would have to know the keystrokes necessary to insert the
character in the "Find" window, so ignore that idea please.

I key in an ‡ (omega character) as an occasional marker: Option-z.

The more I hear about what has been left out of Word 2008, the more I'm glad
I didn't downgrade from Word 2004.

CH
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[ahostmadsen]

opt+cmd+z works on my computer. However, I think it's true that after you close a document, it does not remember the position anymore.

 

[John McGhie]

It should!

Mac Word 2008 introduced a bug that means the last editing position is not
saved when you close the document. I would have thought that by now they
could have fixed that one.

Most of us use a bookmark to mark the spot. I have a macro to do it, and I
incorporate that in a customised Save command, so that every time I save a
document, the location of the cursor is stored by a bookmark, so the next
time I open it, I can immediately skip back there.

Sadly, Word 2008 dos not support macros, which is why I do not use it for
"work". But that doesn't help the original poster!!

Cheers

Would you accept a low tech solution?

Insert something unique, like /\ when you leave.
Search for it when you return.

Yes Yes Yes, it is an ugly hack. It works.

After all these years you'd think MS would offer this as an option in
Prefs.[/QUOTE]

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