[Suppi]

Dear all,

reading a lot of huge specifiation documents, I usually do not read
documents in one go.
To continue reading the next day where I stopped reading today, I
would like to mark the place of my latest reading, i.e. set a
bookmark. So when I open the document again the next day, I just press
a shortcut and, voila, the position shows up where I stopped reading.
So far I did not found any way to do this easily.
Could you please help?

Thanks
Christian

[DeanH]

So long as you can edit the file, you can use Shft+F5 to retrun to the last
point of edit, even after shutdown.
Even adding a space, then save and then close, will be enough of a marker
for Word.
Hope this helps.
DeanH

"Suppi" wrote:

Dear all,

reading a lot of huge specifiation documents, I usually do not read
documents in one go.
To continue reading the next day where I stopped reading today, I
would like to mark the place of my latest reading, i.e. set a
bookmark. So when I open the document again the next day, I just press
a shortcut and, voila, the position shows up where I stopped reading.
So far I did not found any way to do this easily.
Could you please help?

Thanks
Christian

[Terry Farrell]

In fact, you don't have to really edit the document. At the point where you
finish reading it, insert a space and then press Backspace to remove and
click on Save. Word will remember that edit point.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"DeanH" wrote in message
...
So long as you can edit the file, you can use Shft+F5 to retrun to the
last
point of edit, even after shutdown.
Even adding a space, then save and then close, will be enough of a marker
for Word.
Hope this helps.
DeanH

"Suppi" wrote:

Dear all,

reading a lot of huge specifiation documents, I usually do not read
documents in one go.
To continue reading the next day where I stopped reading today, I
would like to mark the place of my latest reading, i.e. set a
bookmark. So when I open the document again the next day, I just press
a shortcut and, voila, the position shows up where I stopped reading.
So far I did not found any way to do this easily.
Could you please help?

Thanks
Christian

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Terry, that *is* an edit!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
In fact, you don't have to really edit the document. At the point where
you finish reading it, insert a space and then press Backspace to remove
and click on Save. Word will remember that edit point.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"DeanH" wrote in message
...
So long as you can edit the file, you can use Shft+F5 to retrun to the
last
point of edit, even after shutdown.
Even adding a space, then save and then close, will be enough of a marker
for Word.
Hope this helps.
DeanH

"Suppi" wrote:

Dear all,

reading a lot of huge specifiation documents, I usually do not read
documents in one go.
To continue reading the next day where I stopped reading today, I
would like to mark the place of my latest reading, i.e. set a
bookmark. So when I open the document again the next day, I just press
a shortcut and, voila, the position shows up where I stopped reading.
So far I did not found any way to do this easily.
Could you please help?

Thanks
Christian

[Terry Farrell]

Well I should have said that you can make an invisible edit: it doesn't have
to be an edit that is seen! Sometimes adding a space may have big
consequences in a document's layout!

Terry

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Terry, that *is* an edit!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
In fact, you don't have to really edit the document. At the point where
you finish reading it, insert a space and then press Backspace to remove
and click on Save. Word will remember that edit point.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"DeanH" wrote in message
...
So long as you can edit the file, you can use Shft+F5 to retrun to the
last
point of edit, even after shutdown.
Even adding a space, then save and then close, will be enough of a
marker
for Word.
Hope this helps.
DeanH

"Suppi" wrote:

Dear all,

reading a lot of huge specifiation documents, I usually do not read
documents in one go.
To continue reading the next day where I stopped reading today, I
would like to mark the place of my latest reading, i.e. set a
bookmark. So when I open the document again the next day, I just press
a shortcut and, voila, the position shows up where I stopped reading.
So far I did not found any way to do this easily.
Could you please help?

Thanks
Christian

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yeah, someone (Beth Melton?) dubbed Spacebar + Backspace a "phantom edit."

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
Well I should have said that you can make an invisible edit: it doesn't
have to be an edit that is seen! Sometimes adding a space may have big
consequences in a document's layout!

Terry

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Terry, that *is* an edit!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
In fact, you don't have to really edit the document. At the point where
you finish reading it, insert a space and then press Backspace to remove
and click on Save. Word will remember that edit point.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"DeanH" wrote in message
...
So long as you can edit the file, you can use Shft+F5 to retrun to the
last
point of edit, even after shutdown.
Even adding a space, then save and then close, will be enough of a
marker
for Word.
Hope this helps.
DeanH

"Suppi" wrote:

Dear all,

reading a lot of huge specifiation documents, I usually do not read
documents in one go.
To continue reading the next day where I stopped reading today, I
would like to mark the place of my latest reading, i.e. set a
bookmark. So when I open the document again the next day, I just press
a shortcut and, voila, the position shows up where I stopped reading.
So far I did not found any way to do this easily.
Could you please help?

Thanks
Christian

[Suppi]

Dear all,

thanks a lot for your help.
I'm surprised that this kind of bookmarking is no built-in
functionality of Word.
A "phantom edit" works but makes it a bit clumsy.
Our Documents are under version control, so modifying the document is
no good idea.
But copying it somewhere else will work for me.

Thanks
Christian