outline view

[DougR]

In Word 2000, I frequently moved around in large documents by switching to
outline view, placing insertion point in a heading, and switching back to
Normal view. I have now changed to Word 2003 and this no longer works. When I
switch back to Normal, the text displayed is not in the location I "selected"
in the outline.

Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a way to restore this capability?

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi Doug,

That's a real PITA! I now use Shift+ArrowRight immediately after switching
views, which centers the view on the selection again. But I hope very much
that this will be fixed. Since many things don't get fixed unless a lot of
users complain, you might want to give your feedback on this bug:
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

Regards,
Klaus

In Word 2000, I frequently moved around in large documents by
switching to outline view, placing insertion point in a heading, and
switching back to Normal view. I have now changed to Word 2003
and this no longer works. When I switch back to Normal, the text
displayed is not in the location I "selected" in the outline.

Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a way to restore this

capability?

 

[Klaus Linke]

[Selection not visible after swiching from Outline View to Normal View in
Word2003]
Switching to Page Layout view, then to Normal view seems like another
possible work-around.
The problem seems to occur when Outline view doesn't display all text
(because heading levels are collapsed, or because only the first line of
paragraphs is shown).

Klaus

 

[DougR]

Thanks for the tip, Klaus. I did submit a request for a fix to Microsoft, as
you suggested.

Doug