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Change Default Insertion Point / Cursor Position
Does anyone know of a way to have the cursor position (insertion point)
by default to a different location such as the middle of a document or to line 2 or 3, or so on. There is actually meaning behind this question because it is for a dictation crew in a hospital to make this easier for them so they don't have to count lines to start. Thanks for the help. |
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You can set a bookmark at the location you want typing to start in your
template. Record an AutoNew macro _in the template_ going to that bookmark. Stop recording. Make sure you do not record the macro in your normal.dot file but in the document template you are creating. Press Ctrl-Home to get out of the bookmark and return to the beginning of the template. When someone creates a new document based on your template, it will go to the bookmark. Note that the bookmark will be deleted when they start typing. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. wrote in message oups.com... Does anyone know of a way to have the cursor position (insertion point) by default to a different location such as the middle of a document or to line 2 or 3, or so on. There is actually meaning behind this question because it is for a dictation crew in a hospital to make this easier for them so they don't have to count lines to start. Thanks for the help. |
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Charles has told you how to do what you asked, but have you considered
making your document a protected form instead? See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm and especially the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. wrote in message oups.com... Does anyone know of a way to have the cursor position (insertion point) by default to a different location such as the middle of a document or to line 2 or 3, or so on. There is actually meaning behind this question because it is for a dictation crew in a hospital to make this easier for them so they don't have to count lines to start. Thanks for the help. |
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I have not thought of creating a protected form and I am looking into
it now. But the way this template is setup there is a 1 row table at the very top of this document for another part of a form that displays ( when template is opened) where you can put in information for a new document. But the section i am having troubles with is the section for appending information where i am able to put in a line number and it should go to it. The problem is that the cursor is in the table at start and will not go to the line number i have specified. I have little to no programming skills so the easiest way is the best way for me at this point. If there is anythign else i can provide that could help please let me know. any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thanks |
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