Bookmarking Locations in Your Document

If you're working on a long document, you might find it handy to "bookmark" a particular spot so that you can get back to it easily, just as you'd use a paper bookmark to mark a page in a book. You could bookmark a section that still needs work or one that's missing information, for example. In addition, you can use a bookmark as the target of a cross-reference or hyperlink, or to define a range of pages to an index.

Follow these steps to insert a bookmark:

1. Click at the location where you want to insert the bookmark.

2. Choose Insert, Bookmark (or press Shift+Ctrl+F5).

3. In the Bookmark dialog box, type a name for the bookmark (see Figure 13.14). Bookmark names cannot include spaces.

   Figure 13.14. Type a name for your bookmark in the Bookmark Name text box.

   

4. Click the Add button to add the bookmark and close the dialog box.

To navigate to a bookmark, display the Bookmark dialog box and double-click the bookmark in the list in the middle of the dialog box. When you're finished using the Bookmark dialog box, click its Close button.

You can also navigate to bookmarks by using the Go To tab of the Find and Replace dialog box. Choose Edit, Go To (or press F5) to display the dialog box, choose Bookmark in the Go to What list, select the desired bookmark in the Enter Bookmark Name list, and click Go To.

To delete a bookmark, select it in the Bookmark dialog box and click the Delete button.