Understanding the Document Map

As you are working with large or complex documents, it is often easy to lose your place and spend a lot of time trying to find information. Word includes a special viewing mode that can help you navigate through your document quickly and easily. This special viewing mode is called the Document Map.

Displaying the Document Map is easy:

• If you are using a version of Word prior to Word 2007, choose Document Map from the View menu.
• If you are using Word 2007, display the View tab of the ribbon. Then, in the Show/Hide group, make sure the Document Map check box is selected.

Both of these methods are toggles; you follow them to turn the Document Map both on and off. You can tell when you are using the Document Map because an outline of your document appears at the left side of the screen, with the document text at the right.