Instructions for using Navigation Pane in Word 2010

Microsoft Office 2010 with many extremely useful practical improvements for users.However, with this massive new feature repository, not everyone can discover it all.Navigation Pane in Word 2010 allows you to "jump" around your document.You can search for text, Word objects such as tables and graphics, or jump to specific sections and pages.The following article will guide you how to use the Navigation Pane to move your documents in many ways.

1. Creating Bookmark to "move" is easier in text

To open the Navigation Pane , click the Find button in the Editing group of the Home tab, or press the Ctrl + F shortcut :

By default, the Navigation panel will be opened in the left part of the Word window. In the Search Document input box at the top, enter the term you want to find. The results will show up automatically (otherwise press Enter or the magnifying glass icon to the right of the search box).

A small thumbnail image is displayed for the text around each word / phrase entered. To jump to this text, just click on the appropriate thumbnail. The words / phrases found will have bold highlights that make it easy to identify them.

Note : Just move the mouse pointer to each thumbnail and you will see the page number of the text, and if you click on the thumbnail you will jump to the corresponding page.

You can also search for objects in Word and elements in your documents: graphics, tables, equations, annotations (footnotes, endnotes) or comments . To do this, click the arrow button to the right of the search box on Navigation , under the Find section of the drop-down menu select a type of object you need to find:

Alternatively you can set up a few more options for the Find feature by: clicking the arrow button to the right of the search box, selecting Options .

The Find Options dialog box will appear, check the options to enable or disable them. If you later want to return to the option as default, click Set As Default . Click OK for the changes to take effect and close this dialog box.

The above options are intended to limit the relevant results to find the most accurate results according to user needs.

For example, you just want the search results to be case-sensitive, to check Match case . Now the search with the Text Box is different from the text box .

When searching for text, the entire occurrence of the word will be displayed even if it is only part of the keyword you enter. For example with the word " text ", the returned result will include the whole text box . The Find whole words only option will help you produce the correct result with the keyword entered.

You can also use symbols in your search criteria with the Use wildcards option. For example, when entering the word " s? T " the results will find words with the first letter " s " and the third letter " t ", the " ? " As any letter (including about way).

Note : When you click OK to close the Find Options dialog box, the keyword and the previous search results will be cleared and the search box will return to the original Search Document status.

To easily move the text fragments found for words / key phrases sequentially, simply click the arrow button ( Next Search Result ) in the third row of Navigation :

If you used built-in heading styles in Word to define sections for your document, you can easily jump to different sections with the first tab (named Browse the headings in your document ) in the section. show results.

On the second tab to display the search results ( Browse the pages in your document ) will contain the thumbnails of the pages in your document. Click on each thumbnail to jump to the corresponding page.

Also, if you want to use the traditional Find and Replace dialog box, click the arrow button to the right of the search box, select Advanced Find from the drop down menu.

The Find and Replace search dialog is a feature commonly found in previous versions of Microsoft Word. Its extended options will appear when the user clicks the More >> button. At this extension option, you can search for content by more specific criteria by clicking the Special button, or formatting the text with the Format button.

Switching to the Replace tab allows you to replace words / phrases with other documents. The Go To tab allows you to jump to a specific page number, section, line or other parts of the document (including Table, Graphic .).

Finally, to close the Navigation Pane, click the arrow button in its title bar, select Close . Or you can select Move to move / change the Navigation Pane position, choose Size to resize.

Microsoft has greatly improved the search feature of Word 2010 to help us better manage documents. Hopefully with this article you will have more experience using Word better.Good luck!