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I am revising a lengthy manuscript in Word 2003, and every time I open the
file, the cursor is set at the top of page 1. How can I get Word to remember
where the cursor was when the file was last saved and open the file at that
point rather than at the beginning of the file?
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After you've opened the document, you can press Shift+F5 to go to the
last edit point.

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I am revising a lengthy manuscript in Word 2003, and every time I

open the
file, the cursor is set at the top of page 1. How can I get Word to

remember
where the cursor was when the file was last saved and open the file

at that
point rather than at the beginning of the file?




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Okay, so I tried the Sift-F5 thing. It doesn't work. I tried making an edit,
saving, closing Word, reopening the file, and Shift-F5 does nothing. If I
skip the closing Word part, Shift-F5 will take me to the last edit point. Is
there another step, a setting somewhere, that I'm missing to get Shift-F5 to
work on a freshly opened file?

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

After you've opened the document, you can press Shift+F5 to go to the
last edit point.

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I am revising a lengthy manuscript in Word 2003, and every time I

open the
file, the cursor is set at the top of page 1. How can I get Word to

remember
where the cursor was when the file was last saved and open the file

at that
point rather than at the beginning of the file?





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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/GoBackFix.htm.

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Okay, so I tried the Sift-F5 thing. It doesn't work. I tried making

an edit,
saving, closing Word, reopening the file, and Shift-F5 does nothing.

If I
skip the closing Word part, Shift-F5 will take me to the last edit

point. Is
there another step, a setting somewhere, that I'm missing to get

Shift-F5 to
work on a freshly opened file?

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

After you've opened the document, you can press Shift+F5 to go to

the
last edit point.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Writing_Guy" wrote in message
news
I am revising a lengthy manuscript in Word 2003, and every time

I
open the
file, the cursor is set at the top of page 1. How can I get Word

to
remember
where the cursor was when the file was last saved and open the

file
at that
point rather than at the beginning of the file?










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Writing_Guy wrote:
I am revising a lengthy manuscript in Word 2003, and every time I
open the file, the cursor is set at the top of page 1. How can I get
Word to remember where the cursor was when the file was last saved
and open the file at that point rather than at the beginning of the
file?


Shift-F5 takes you to the last edit point.

I also Insert Bookmarks here and there to make it easier to find things I'm
working on, especially if it involves spread out data.




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