WD: Go To \Page Bookmark Selects Whole Document (105567)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0
- Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0a
- Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0c
- Microsoft Word for Windows 95
- Microsoft Word for Windows 95 7.0a
- Microsoft Word for the Macintosh 6.0
- Microsoft Word for the Macintosh 6.0.1
- Microsoft Word for the Macintosh 6.0.1a
- Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition
This article was previously published under Q105567 SYMPTOMS
When you click Go To on the Edit menu and type "\Page" (without the
quotation marks) in the Enter Page Number box, sometimes Word selects the
entire document instead of the current page.
This can also happen when you run a macro that uses the "\Page" reserved
bookmark as shown in the following examples.
Word 6 and Word 7
EditGoTo .Destination = "\page"
Word 98
Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="\page"
CAUSE
Word has not yet paginated your document, or the Background Repagination
option is not turned on.
Word repaginates your document before inserting page breaks. Until Word
repaginates the document, it treats the document as a single page. If a new
document has not been repaginated, the \Page bookmark selects the entire
document. After repagination, Word inserts page breaks, so the \Page
bookmark correctly selects only the current page.
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, use either of the following methods:
- If background repagination is turned off, switch to page layout view or
print preview, which forces Word to repaginate your document. Then use
the Go To command.
-or-
- Turn on the Background Repagination option by following these steps:
- On the Tools menu, click Options (click Preferences in Word 98).
- Select the General tab.
- Click to select the Background Repagination check box and then click
OK.
MORE INFORMATION
The \Page bookmark is a reserved, predefined bookmark in Word that returns
the contents of the current page.
| Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 8/16/2005 |
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| Keywords: | kbformat kbprb KB105567 |
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