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Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated May 31, 2014)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
Word allows you to move the insertion point to any page in your document by using the Go To command. To take advantage of this feature, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Go To tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
If, instead of entering a page number (step 3), you simply click on the Next button, Word moves to the next page in the document.
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2022-02-24 22:13:27
on my EDIT MENU THERE IS NO "GO TO " OPTION!!!
2018-11-23 08:48:31
GS
Thank you, kind sir!
2018-05-04 23:30:28
Kate ;)
Thank-you! This was most helpful! And thank-you for the emails too!
2016-08-05 16:07:14
Jorro
Thanks very much!
2016-07-21 07:26:07
Pawan
Thank you for the tip
2014-09-09 12:55:33
awyatt
Lynette: Try this:
http://word.tips.net/T000011
-Allen
2014-09-09 10:45:58
Lynette
My elderly dad is writing his life story in Word. Whenever he reopens the document, it goes to page 1. Is there a way (he wants to know) to get Word to open the document to the part/page where he closed it? He REALLY doesn't want to go through a lot of steps. Or even two or three steps! He is very non-technical.
2014-07-07 23:46:43
mahesh
Thanks for all your tips:-)
2014-06-01 19:15:57
Bob Locher
When I am editing a long document, when I need to pause for whatever reason I type in <CR>XXXXX<CR> as a place marker and save.
When I want to go back I can either visually search for that or do a Word Search. I delete the marker and continue.
This is admittedly a very low tech solution but it meets my needs perfectly - and works in most ANY word processor.
2014-05-31 11:06:34
Miker
And in any version of Word, double-clicking on the page count on the lower status bar brings up that GOTO menu, saving a couple of steps.
2014-05-31 04:48:32
Further to yout 'Go to ...', I hae always used the CTRL/G to provide more destination information :
e.g. s (for Section followed by a number, followed p (Page) followed by the page number.
This is probably the same as you suggest.
Thank you for all your tips!
Bill
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