When documents reopen, cursor is in same place when last closed.

[Guest]

In Word, I wish that when I reopen a document, the editing cursor jumps to
exactly where it was when I last closed the document.

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[Anne Troy]

Open the document and hit Shift+F5.

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[Guest]

Respectfully, I disagree. I see my request as similar to the person who
wants spell-checking on the fly. One could say 'just press F7' to
spellcheck, but I don't want to have to do that. I want it to check my
spelling automatically. And I want to open a document just where I left it.

 

[Jay Freedman]

To do that, you need to add a macro to your Normal.dot template or
another global template. The macro name 'AutoOpen' is special; it runs
whenever you open an existing document. This is the macro you need
(see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm if needed):

Sub AutoOpen()
Application.GoBack
End Sub

Depending on your version of Word, you may have to add another macro
to make sure the last location is saved when you close Word; see
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/GoBackFix.htm.

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[Guest]

With respect, (once again) I don't want a kludge or workaround. and I can't
be bothered with a macro. I'm moderately experienced and I couldn't be
bothered to install a macro (I've tried in the past, and I've never bothered
to remember them, more trouble than they are worth), so what hope for the
dozen other people with whom I work, and who know even less.

I'm simply saying this should be built into Word (and any other document
editing program). When I open a document in Word it remembers the zoom level
and the type of display (e.g. page layout, normal or outline).

So why can't it simply remember the point at which I left off editing the
document? It's not much to ask of Microsoft (or any other company, although
I get the feeling that Microsoft listen more than most).

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

With respect, although I can see that it would be valuable to have this as
an option, I would not want this behavior for most of the documents I open.
For one thing, it would result in the behavior you see in Excel, viz., that
if you open a document just to look at it and move the insertion point, you
are prompted to save it on closing. We already have enough
questions/complaints from users about being prompted to save documents when
they have just opened them and want to close them without making any
changes.

In any case, I don't think Shift+F5 is that burdensome. If you use Word at
all effectively, I'm sure you manage to remember quite a few other keyboard
shortcuts.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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