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[Diane Van]

Word 2007, Win XP

New job and I was used to older version of Word but have been away from
Word for a while.

I seem to remember a keystroke which would take me back to where I had
recently been. Good for going back and forth in a long document.

I am familair with F5 go to, but there is no choice for "previous place"

Is it my imagination or some other program that did this for me?

I could make a little macro, if I knew the proper term.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Diane

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Shift+F5 will cycle through the previous three edit points. Note, however,
that you cannot, in Word 2007, open a (.docx) document and use Shift+F5 to
reach the place you left off in the last editing session. That bookmark is
not stored in the .docx format. It does still work, I think, in .doc
documents (saved in Word 97-2003 format). And I think maybe the
functionality is restored in Word 2010.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Stefan Blom]

For versions where Shift+F5 doesn't work in a newly opened document, you can make use of a macro. MVP Graham Mayor has posted the following:

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Sub OpenAt()
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="OpenAt"
End Sub

Added to a keyboard shortcut or to a button on the QAT, when run it will
insert a bookmark at the cursor position called OpenAt. Or you could
incorporate the command line in a macro to intercept the Save and Save as
functions to mark the last cursor position before saving the document.

The following macro will check for that bookmark and select it if present
when a document is opened.

Sub AutoOpen()
If ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Exists("OpenAt") = True Then
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("OpenAt").Select
End If
End Sub

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
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In case there is an "updated" version, I'm sure Graham will tell us.

Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
Shift+F5 will cycle through the previous three edit points. Note, however,
that you cannot, in Word 2007, open a (.docx) document and use Shift+F5 to
reach the place you left off in the last editing session. That bookmark is
not stored in the .docx format. It does still work, I think, in .doc
documents (saved in Word 97-2003 format). And I think maybe the
functionality is restored in Word 2010.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Jay Freedman]

Besides the Shift+F5, which cycles among previous places where you edited something, there's a "Go Back" command (Alt+Left arrow) that returns you to where you clicked some form of hyperlink,
including cross-references and table-of-contents entries.

 

[Diane Van]

Yeah! Shift-F5. It works great and keeps me from getting dizzy
checking back and forth. I used it a lot today!

Thanks too for the macro and other suggestions. I need it mainly for
working inside one long document rather than finding the spot I left
when I close it.

I will save the macro info though, since I can see the potential use
for it as well.

Thanks again everyone.

Diane