The simplest possible way is just to leave a unique character string at your ending place, and search for it. I generally use "xxxxxxx". Takes about two seconds to get there.
caw
I tried that since I opened the thread and it worked like a charm.
caw.
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Or, personalize it!!! I'm kkbe, so I type kkkkkk's. Christina, you could type a string of cccccc's!!!!
Btw, it doesn't matter how many, you don't even have to count; give it a try--it's functional AND fun!!!!
Personally, I would only write like five C's, ccccc, so that I don't lose count of how many there are making it impossible to find the marking string. That's pretty cool. Thanks for the suggestion.
If its a long piece of work, then I just insert an index. The tree sits on the left side and you move from chapter to chapter with a single click. Works especially well if you bounce all over the place.
Of course, you could also try Scrivener as a replacement for Word - and it opens were you have last left off
This just might be the best suggestion yet. Thank you. It'll be very similar to just opening the document where one left off because I always remember the next chapter I'm working on. For instance, for tomorrow my next chapter to work on is 43, so I just find chapter 43 in the index and voila.
Is Scrivener free or will I have to pay for it?
CTRL + G, then the page number.
I do like Celt-x for that reason - most of the time it opens up to where I last was writing or editing but so long as you can remember the page number then the above is just fine.
I will try this also. Thanks. I will try all your suggestions.
Word 2013 provides a link to pick up where you left off upon re-opening a document, which is a nice little feature. Ctrl-End will take you to the end of a document, but of course that might not always be where you were last.
I would strongly recommend using Header styles to name your chapters - this way you can use the inbuilt document map (included since at least Word 2003) to quickly navigate around your file. I don't like using bookmarks, personally. I find they aren't exact enough - often jumping to a bookmark at the start of a page will take you to the end of the previous page instead. They can be annoying when passing files around others as well, as many people don't set the view options to make them visible.
I have Word 2007, and I'd only purchase Word 2013 if I didn't have Word at all. This hand-me-down computer came with Word 2007 installed when it got to my hands, so that's what I use. I will only purchase a new version of Word if this hard drive gets formatted or something bad happens to this machine.
I will try Headers as well. This question is now solved. Thanks everyone for all your help!
Chris!
ETA: I would download a 60-day trial of Office 2013, but I'm on a 4G mobile broadband internet service and I only have 1000 minutes to download stuff, and I ran out of that just by downloading three 35-kilobyte pictures and two songs on iTunes.
When I get an internet service that lets me have unlimited downloads, I'll download the trial of Office 2013.