Mark and Find Your Place

You can use the Bookmark feature to mark a location in a document so that you can easily return to it later.

You can also use bookmarks to store text; and Word uses bookmarks behind the scenes to operate some of its features.

MARK YOUR PLACE

1. Click the location you want to mark.

2. Click Insert.

3. Click Bookmark.

   

   The Bookmark dialog box appears.

4. Type a name for the bookmark.

5. Click Add.

   

   Word saves the bookmark and closes the Bookmark dialog box.

FIND YOUR PLACE

1. Press .

   The Go To tab of the Find and Replace dialog box appears.

2. Click Bookmark.

3. Click here and select a bookmark.

4. Click Go To.

   

   Word moves the insertion point to the bookmark.

   A bookmark containing text surrounds the text with brackets ([ ]).

   Note 

   If the bookmark contains text, Word moves the insertion point to the beginning of the bookmark.

5. Press .

   

   Word closes the Find and Replace dialog box.

How do I display bookmarks in my document?

1. Click Tools.

2. Click Options.

   

3. Click on the View tab.

4. Click Bookmarks ( changes to ).

5. Click OK.

   

   Word displays open and close brackets representing the beginning and end of each bookmark.