Endnotes

[Guest]

Is there a way to jump back to the text where you entered an endnote after
you have entered it? In Wordperfect, for example, there is an icon that you
click that takes you right back to where you were. But I can't seen to find
something simliar in word. It seems like a pain to have to scroll back
through all the text when you are working on a long manuscript.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Try pressing Shift+F5. It cycles among the current and previous three places
where any editing occurred.

 

[Klaus Linke]

In older versions, the same keystroke Alt+Ctrl+D inserted a footnote, and
took you back to the text.
It stopped working at some time.

You can override the built-in command with your own macro to re-establish
that nice behaviour:

Sub InsertEndnoteNow()
' hijacks the built-in InsertEndnoteNow,
' Keystroke: Alt+Ctrl+D

If Selection.StoryType = wdEndnotesStory Then
' return to main text:
With ActiveWindow
Select Case .ActivePane.View.Type
Case wdPrintView, wdReadingView, _
wdWebView, wdPrintPreview
.View.SeekView = wdSeekMainDocument
Case Else
.ActivePane.Close
End Select
End With
If Selection.Characters.Last.Style = _
ActiveDocument.Styles(wdStyleEndnoteReference) Then
Selection.Move Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
End If
Else
' insert endnote:
Selection.Endnotes.Add Range:=Selection.Range
End If
End Sub

A similar macro works for footnotes (Alt+Ctrl+F).

Regards,
Klaus

 

[Klaus Linke]

.... and if you are more of a mouse type than a keyboard type:
Double-clicking on the endnote reference takes you back, too.

Klaus