Last Cursor Location

[Bill G]

When I open a large document how can I move the cursor to the last edit
position? I have 2007 and have saved the document to 97-2003 (doc) and the
Shift+F5 still does not work.

This was posted by Jay Freedman on 06-16-09

The shortcut is exactly the same -- Shift+F5 is the shortcut for the GoBack
command.

But in Word 2007's new format (.docx), this won't work immediately after
opening
the document to return to the last edit from a previous session. Microsoft
"forgot" to save the built-in bookmark that the GoBack command uses. It still
works if you save the document in Word 97-2003 (.doc) format.

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[Jay Freedman]

All I can tell you is that it does work here (I just tried again to be
sure).

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[Bill G]

Jay

Thanks for the replay, is there a way that I could send you my file for you
to look at?

 

[Graham Mayor]

You can easily work around the problem with a few simple macros stored in
the normal template. These intercept the save and saveas routines to insert
a bookmark at the cursor position and locate the cursor at that bookmark (if
present) when the document is next opened. If you already have macros with
these names, incorporate the code in those macros.

Sub FileSave()
On Error Resume Next
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, name:="OpenAt"
ActiveDocument.Save
End Sub

Sub FileSaveAs()
On Error Resume Next
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, name:="OpenAt"
Dialogs(wdDialogFileSaveAs).Show
'Add filename and path to title bar
ActiveWindow.Caption = ActiveDocument.FullName
End Sub

I have added a couple of optional extra lines in the following (and one in
the previous macro) -

Sub AutoOpen()
'add filename and path to title bar
ActiveWindow.Caption = ActiveDocument.FullName
'turn on table grid line display
ActiveWindow.View.TableGridlines = True
If ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Exists("OpenAt") = True Then
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("OpenAt").Select
End If
End Sub

to ensure that gridlines are always displayed and to put the filename and
path in the Word title bar.

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


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[Bill G]

Thanks for the reply. Macros are something that I have never done before,
and I do not understand them. Where can I go to learn more about them and
how to make them?

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Did you look at Graham's link "installing macros" at the bottom? Works
like a charm.

 

[Bill G]

I missed that, I'll try it and see if I get in trouble.

Thanks