Word 2008: What section number is cursor location?

[drdocument]

In prior version the status bar at the bottom of window displayed the section number in which the cursor was located.

This section number display is lost in Word 2008.

How do you determine the section in which the cursor is located?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Sorry--the feature is gone. Use Help | Send Feedback in Word to let MS
know that you would like it back or visit here:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/suggestions.mspx

In the meantime, while this is a very slow workaround, if you bring up
the header and footer (use View | Header and Footer rather than clicking
in the margins), it should show the number of the section that is
currently active (with some limitations if you have continuous section
breaks).

 

[drdocument]

Yes, that is the problem. And I have discovered that workaround.

I use numerous continuous sections in my documents (courtroom trial transcripts). This workaround is somewhat satisfactory if I am only dealing with the section at the end of the document, but is problematic if I need to go back to a section in the middle of the document.

Another workaround is to place the cursor at the beginning of the document and use "Go to" "section" and count (sigh!).

What genius decided to remove this feature? Why was it removed? Did someone thing we wouldn't care what section we're in?

How is removing a feature an improvement?

Additionally, if the document begins with other than Page 1 (as I do with multiple volumes), the "assigned" page number is no longer displayed in the status bar, either, like Word 2004. So we have to go to Page Layout View to determine the assigned page number versus the physical page number of the document.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Please copy all that into the Feedback you send MS.

On this group, you are just talking to other people who use the software.

 

[drdocument]

      On this group, you are just talking to other people who use the software






Yes. There were a couple rhetorical questions in there.