Document navigation help please

[dennisthe10]

hi
have a long word doc that will be made ready only in a public domain,
problem i have is that i want users to be able to click a link/tab and jump
straight to a certain section but the link/tab section needs to be constantly
visable i.e. standard hyperlinks are no good.
Im very new to word, i have also tried the document map feature which would
be perfect if i was able to edit it by deleting all the unnecssay links and
add my own manually?
sorry if this is an easy one, i am a newbie
Thanks
Alan

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello Alan

have a long word doc that will be made ready only in a public domain,

first of, it's rather special to release a document into the public
domain (to distribute it at all unless it's meant to be edited) in DOC
format. There are practically no benefits and lots of disadvantages
commpared to, say, PDF or HTML.

problem i have is that i want users to be able to click a link/tab and jump
straight to a certain section but the link/tab section needs to be constantly
visable i.e. standard hyperlinks are no good.

That's usually what a TOC is meant for. Read up in your (unnamed version
of) Word's offline help about "TOC."

Im very new to word, i have also tried the document map feature which would
be perfect if i was able to edit it by deleting all the unnecssay links and
add my own manually?

The DM usually shows outline levels. If you use styles to markup your
content (like "Heading 1" for major headings), then the DM shows these.
If the DM does not show what you have in mind as a rough "grid" of your
text, you might profit reading up on styles in Word first.

HTH
Robert