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GoBack function
The GoBack function causes the insertion point to "go back" to the
previous location. I think it has a memory of 4 locations. It is assigned to 2 different keyboard shortcuts: a-c-z and s-F5. This is a very useful function, but there is just one GoBack stack for all open documents. That is, it records the last 4 locations, not the last 4 locations in this document. This seems useful, but not nearly as useful as having separate GoBack stacks for each open document. If I have been working in A and I alt-tab over B, the GoBack stack will quickly lose memory for the last 4 locations in A so that when I return, I can no longer GoBack in that document. Is there anyway to make this work in each document independently? Also, is there any way to increase the stack size? Finally, why 2 shortcuts? -- Office 2007 Pro on WinXP |
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It actually stores only three previous locations, and I agree that they
should be confined to the current document. I have also found this behavior (jumping to another document) unexpected, illogical, and very annoying. -- 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. "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... The GoBack function causes the insertion point to "go back" to the previous location. I think it has a memory of 4 locations. It is assigned to 2 different keyboard shortcuts: a-c-z and s-F5. This is a very useful function, but there is just one GoBack stack for all open documents. That is, it records the last 4 locations, not the last 4 locations in this document. This seems useful, but not nearly as useful as having separate GoBack stacks for each open document. If I have been working in A and I alt-tab over B, the GoBack stack will quickly lose memory for the last 4 locations in A so that when I return, I can no longer GoBack in that document. Is there anyway to make this work in each document independently? Also, is there any way to increase the stack size? Finally, why 2 shortcuts? -- Office 2007 Pro on WinXP |
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:38:03 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote: It actually stores only three previous locations, I guess that depends on whether you count or origin 0 or 1. The current location is a locationm, is it not? and I agree that they should be confined to the current document. I have also found this behavior (jumping to another document) unexpected, illogical, and very annoying. At least I'm not the only one who is annoyed ;-) How hard would it be to write a macro to keep track of the last "n" locations in each document? I guess we would need to define what a "location" is. I wouldn't want it to keep track of every backspace. Alternatively, how hard would it be to write a macro that would (a) save the current location in a stack of depth N or (b) go back to the previous location in thay stack -- depending on a parameter? -- Office 2007 Pro on WinXP |
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Yes and No. Think of the users that use the GoBack to switch between edits
in two documents they are currently editing. They would be annoyed if GoBack only worked on the document in focus. I guess that the solution would be to have two different commands, shortcuts and names: one a GoBack command for the current document and the other a GoBack command for working across multiple documents. Terry "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:38:03 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It actually stores only three previous locations, I guess that depends on whether you count or origin 0 or 1. The current location is a locationm, is it not? and I agree that they should be confined to the current document. I have also found this behavior (jumping to another document) unexpected, illogical, and very annoying. At least I'm not the only one who is annoyed ;-) How hard would it be to write a macro to keep track of the last "n" locations in each document? I guess we would need to define what a "location" is. I wouldn't want it to keep track of every backspace. Alternatively, how hard would it be to write a macro that would (a) save the current location in a stack of depth N or (b) go back to the previous location in thay stack -- depending on a parameter? -- Office 2007 Pro on WinXP |
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I agree. I can see when it would be useful for switching between documents,
though actually just using the built-in command to switch between windows/documents would put you at the previous insertion point. -- 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. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Yes and No. Think of the users that use the GoBack to switch between edits in two documents they are currently editing. They would be annoyed if GoBack only worked on the document in focus. I guess that the solution would be to have two different commands, shortcuts and names: one a GoBack command for the current document and the other a GoBack command for working across multiple documents. Terry "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:38:03 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It actually stores only three previous locations, I guess that depends on whether you count or origin 0 or 1. The current location is a locationm, is it not? and I agree that they should be confined to the current document. I have also found this behavior (jumping to another document) unexpected, illogical, and very annoying. At least I'm not the only one who is annoyed ;-) How hard would it be to write a macro to keep track of the last "n" locations in each document? I guess we would need to define what a "location" is. I wouldn't want it to keep track of every backspace. Alternatively, how hard would it be to write a macro that would (a) save the current location in a stack of depth N or (b) go back to the previous location in thay stack -- depending on a parameter? -- Office 2007 Pro on WinXP |
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To be clear, it's not "locations"; it's "edit points." If you have placed
the cursor somewhere and not made any changes (a backspace would count), then that is not included. Sometimes I wish it were. If I've opened a document and found a location just to check on something, then closed it, it would be convenient if, having forgotten what I just looked at, I could get back to it more quickly! -- 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. "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:38:03 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It actually stores only three previous locations, I guess that depends on whether you count or origin 0 or 1. The current location is a locationm, is it not? and I agree that they should be confined to the current document. I have also found this behavior (jumping to another document) unexpected, illogical, and very annoying. At least I'm not the only one who is annoyed ;-) How hard would it be to write a macro to keep track of the last "n" locations in each document? I guess we would need to define what a "location" is. I wouldn't want it to keep track of every backspace. Alternatively, how hard would it be to write a macro that would (a) save the current location in a stack of depth N or (b) go back to the previous location in thay stack -- depending on a parameter? -- Office 2007 Pro on WinXP |
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On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:24:41 +0100, "Terry Farrell"
wrote: Yes and No. Think of the users that use the GoBack to switch between edits in two documents they are currently editing. Alt-tab (task switch) already works perfectly well for that. GoBack is philosophically wrong for that function. They would be annoyed if GoBack only worked on the document in focus. Yes, users become accustomed to ALL product features -- even poorly designed and stupid ones, like this one. That's why the developers should think twice before implementing some geeky feature. Clearly, that wasn't done here. I guess that the solution would be to have two different commands, shortcuts and names: one a GoBack command for the current document and the other a GoBack command for working across multiple documents. GoBack is the wrong concept for switching between documents. We already have task switching, which is what that is. I would make an exception for two windows of the same document. If GoBack were implemented properly, it would be a customizable stack. The user would have options for what is and is not put in the stack and how deep it is. GoBack would have a couple of ways to be invoked. One would be just GoBack one step at a time (S-F5). Another (CS-F5?) would bring up a list of the GoBack locations with some identifying information such as you get when dragging the scroll bar. There are so many interesting and useful features that they could have provided. That they did what they did and left it that way for so long (despite making billions of dollars) is pathetic. Terry "LurfysMa" wrote in message .. . On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:38:03 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It actually stores only three previous locations, I guess that depends on whether you count or origin 0 or 1. The current location is a locationm, is it not? and I agree that they should be confined to the current document. I have also found this behavior (jumping to another document) unexpected, illogical, and very annoying. At least I'm not the only one who is annoyed ;-) How hard would it be to write a macro to keep track of the last "n" locations in each document? I guess we would need to define what a "location" is. I wouldn't want it to keep track of every backspace. Alternatively, how hard would it be to write a macro that would (a) save the current location in a stack of depth N or (b) go back to the previous location in thay stack -- depending on a parameter? -- Office 2007 Pro on WinXP -- Office 2007 Pro on WinXP |
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It would be much better. But it seems the current culture today is not to
think of consequences properly. Governments are especially adept at ignoring cause and effect of action and legislation. Terry "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:24:41 +0100, "Terry Farrell" wrote: Yes and No. Think of the users that use the GoBack to switch between edits in two documents they are currently editing. Alt-tab (task switch) already works perfectly well for that. GoBack is philosophically wrong for that function. They would be annoyed if GoBack only worked on the document in focus. Yes, users become accustomed to ALL product features -- even poorly designed and stupid ones, like this one. That's why the developers should think twice before implementing some geeky feature. Clearly, that wasn't done here. I guess that the solution would be to have two different commands, shortcuts and names: one a GoBack command for the current document and the other a GoBack command for working across multiple documents. GoBack is the wrong concept for switching between documents. We already have task switching, which is what that is. I would make an exception for two windows of the same document. If GoBack were implemented properly, it would be a customizable stack. The user would have options for what is and is not put in the stack and how deep it is. GoBack would have a couple of ways to be invoked. One would be just GoBack one step at a time (S-F5). Another (CS-F5?) would bring up a list of the GoBack locations with some identifying information such as you get when dragging the scroll bar. There are so many interesting and useful features that they could have provided. That they did what they did and left it that way for so long (despite making billions of dollars) is pathetic. Terry "LurfysMa" wrote in message . .. On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:38:03 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It actually stores only three previous locations, I guess that depends on whether you count or origin 0 or 1. The current location is a locationm, is it not? and I agree that they should be confined to the current document. I have also found this behavior (jumping to another document) unexpected, illogical, and very annoying. At least I'm not the only one who is annoyed ;-) How hard would it be to write a macro to keep track of the last "n" locations in each document? I guess we would need to define what a "location" is. I wouldn't want it to keep track of every backspace. Alternatively, how hard would it be to write a macro that would (a) save the current location in a stack of depth N or (b) go back to the previous location in thay stack -- depending on a parameter? -- Office 2007 Pro on WinXP -- Office 2007 Pro on WinXP |
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