Opening documents at a specific position in the document

[Guest]

I use Word 2003 and I seem to recall that I was able to set something (but no
longer remember what) so that when I open a document I previously revised, I
was able to have my cursor at the exact position it was in when I last
revised the document. For example, if I made a revision on page 3 of a
document, then saved and closed the document at that point, I could reopen
the document and be at exactly that place (on page 3 where I had made the
last revision). Does this make sense to anyone? I would appreciate some
guidance. Thanks!

 

[Guest]

Try Shift F5. That should do it.

 

[Guest]

What about Word 2007? Shift F5 doesn't seem to work

 

[Tony Jollans]

This post has appeared orphaned in my Windows Mail so I don't know the
history of it but, as far as I can tell, Shift+F5 does work insofar as it
remains a functioning shortcut for the Goback command. What seems to have
changed is that the history to goback to is no longer saved with and/or
restored from individual opened documents.

 

[Guest]

I have exact same question: Where is the setting to tell Word 2007 to
restore/remember my cursor position when I reopen my doc? I too remember
Word 2003 doing this. I shouldn't have to add keystrokes to my day in order
to get a newer version of the software to duplicate previous version's
feature.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hitting shift-F5 directly after opening the document will jump you back
to the last edit point (not always the same as cursor position).

There is not a built-in setting for this, but it's possible you had
created a macro to do this automatically.