A Simple Way to Save a Place in a Word Document

[JD]

I read some very long documents, usually without making any edits. I'd like
to find a simple way to get the docs to open to the page where I left off
reading.
I've tried Bookmarks, but find them troublesome, since each has to be
deleted and redone at the end of each session.
I've heard rumors of a way to make a doc open to a certain page
automatically but have been unable to find it in Help. Is there such a
process?

 

[Pat Garard]

G'Day JD,

Persist with a single Bookmark.

Give it a name like '_AAA', to keep it at the
top of the Bookmark list.

You do NOT have to delete it (until you have
utterly finished with it), simply select some text
and Insert>Bookmark>Enter.

Since you have carried out an edit, use SHIFT+F5
to go to THAT EDIT (when you re-open the document).

If there is a TOC, try also View>Document Map.
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Australia

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[Jezebel]

My thoughts exactly, apart from the suggested bookmark name.

You can't assign a bookmark name that begins with underscore using the
Bookmarks dialog. (You can do it using VBA.) Underscores are used for hidden
bookmarks: shown in the list only if 'hidden bookmarks' is checked; but even
then, you still can't add new ones through the dialog.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you have done any editing at the page where you left off reading,
Shift+F5 will take you to it.

 

[JD]

Thanks to all who responded. I think the simplest solution is to use Shift +
F5. I can just hit the space bar (creating an "edit") before closing.

 

[Pat Garard]

Touché Jezebel,

While there may well be dwarves in heaven at com.kr, you seem
to be MUCH closer than that!

Canberra???
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Australia

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[Jezebel]

the dwarves just love to frohlich!

Yep, Canberra it is. I earn my living cleaning George Bush's faeces from
John Howard's nose.

 

[Pat Garard]

Ahhh!
That's his nose.......?
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See Ya Round,
Pat Garard
Australia

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