(…couldn’t resist titling the thread that way, sorry.)
One of the things that has bugged me about every word processor I’ve ever used, but one, is that when you close a document you lose all your session info. The exception was long-ago’s Borland Sprint, which let you open a dozen documents and save the session - each document would open with the cut and paste buffers, edit position, everything saved for you. I know one or two fiction authors who absolutely loved it for that, and even for the largely technical writing I was doing at the time, it was a boon. For some reason, no iteration of any WP since has offered that feature.
But you can add it to Word. I did, this week, and am loving it.
[ol]
[li]Open any document with the standard template.[/li][li]Create a new macro with the name AutoOpen. (Don’t assign it to any key or button.) Word will execute whatever’s in this macro every time it opens a document (like Windows Startup).[/li][li]With macro record, just hit Shift-F5 (Go Back). Save the macro.[/li][/ol]
Now, whenever you open a document, the Go Back command will put the cursor right where you left off.
You can also add it to special templates if, for example, you want long reports to behave this way but not your memos and correspondence. It’s tied to the document template.
If you like to write your macros, here’s the code instead:
Sub AutoOpen()
'
' AutoOpen Macro
'
'
Application.GoBack
End Sub
