Elizabeth wrote:
[snip]
Do you happen to know why Shift-F5 isn't available in 2007? It would
be interesting to know whether that was a conscious decision by
Microsoft or if it was an accidental side-effect of the repackaging
of Word.
It appears that it was an oversight, but one that isn't likely to be fixed
until the next major version.
The technical detail is this: There are several built-in bookmarks in every
document, including one named \PrevSel1 that marks the location of the most
recent edit. In the Word 97-2003 (.doc) format, the \PrevSel1 bookmark is
saved in the file (although there is a bug in some versions, explained in
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/GoBackFix.htm). When you reopen the
file, the bookmark is still there and the GoBack command moves the insertion
point to it.
By an oversight, the Word 2007 (.docx, .docm) format doesn't save that
bookmark in the file -- it exists only as long as the document is in memory.
So when you close the document and later reopen it, there's no bookmark for
the GoBack command to go to. I haven't heard an explanation of whether the
problem is simply the lack of code in the Save routine to store the
bookmark, or -- more serious, but unlikely -- the lack of a place in the
file structure to store it.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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