Navigation area in Word 2010 allows you to navigate through your document in several ways. With it, you can find text, Word objects such as tables and graphs, jump to specific headings and pages.
We’ve already shown you earlier how to navigate a Word document using bookmarks. In this article, we’ll look at how to navigate a document using the Navigation Pane.
To open the Navigation pane, press the command Find (Find) in section Editing (Editing) tab Home (Home) or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + F.
Window Navigate (Navigation) opens on the left side of the Word window by default. Enter the word or phrase you are looking for in the input field at the top of the navigation area. The result will be shown automatically. If not, click Enter or the magnifying glass icon to the right of the input field.
For each found repetition of the searched word or phrase, a small thumbnail will be shown. To go to one of the repetitions in the document, click on the desired thumbnail. Each instance of the found word or phrase is highlighted on the screen to make it easier to find the desired text.
If you move the mouse cursor over one of the thumbnails, a tooltip will appear with information on which page in the document this repetition of the searched text can be found.
You can search for a wide variety of Word objects. These can be graphs, tables, equations, footnotes/endnotes, and comments. To do this, click the down arrow on the right side of the search query input field. In chapter Find (Find) from the menu that opens, select the desired object type.
For instrument Find (Find) There are several customizable options. To access these settings, click the down arrow on the right side of the search query input field again and select from the menu that appears. Options (Options).
A dialog box will open Find Options (Search options). Check or uncheck the options you are interested in. If you want to make the selected options the default settings, click Set As Default (Default). When finished, press OKto save changes and close the dialog box.
Parameter Match case (Case Sensitive) allows you to search for text exactly according to the case of the characters, i.e. how it was introduced. For example, if you enter the query “Mode”, then the word “mode” will not be found.
When you search for a specific phrase, the program displays search results if the phrase occurs as a single word or as part of other words. For example, when you search for the text “begin”, repetitions of the word “beginning” will also be included in the search results. You can avoid this by selecting the option Find whole words only (Only the whole word).
If you enable the option Use wildcards (Wildcards), wildcard characters can be used in the search. For example, if you search for “c?i”, the result will be all words or parts of words that contain the character “c” in the first place and the character “i” in the third place. The rest of the letters don’t matter. You can find a list of possible wildcard characters on the Microsoft website.
If you press OK in the dialog box Find Options (Search Options), the last search will be cleared and the cursor will be moved to the beginning of the document. If you press Cancel (Cancel), the search will not be cleared.
To easily move forward through the search results in a document, click the down arrow below the search query input field. The up arrow will move you to the previous search result in the document.
These buttons can also be used to move to the next or previous Word object if you have chosen to search for a specific object in the options.
If you have used one of the built-in heading styles in Word to mark sections of your document, you can easily navigate through the sections using the first panel tab – Browse the headings (Headings).
In addition, this tab allows you to reorganize documents.
Go to the next tab − Browse the pages (Pages) to see thumbnails of all the pages in your document. Click on one of them to quickly jump to the corresponding page.
If you prefer to use the classic dialog box Find and Replace (Find and Replace), click the down arrow on the right side of the field to enter a search query and in the menu that appears, select Advanced Find (Advanced Search).
A dialog box will open Find and Replace (Find and replace). This is exactly the same dialog box that you have seen in previous versions of Word. Settings Find Options (Settings) can be opened by pressing the button More (More). In addition, you can run a search for specific formatting, such as text written in a specific font in a paragraph of a specific style. Clicking on the button Special (Special), many special characters and signs can be found.
You can open a tab Replace (Replace) or Go To (Go) using the same drop-down menu in the navigation area as when opening a tab Find (Find).
Tab Replace (Replace) is very similar to a tab Find (Find), but it has an additional field added Replace with (Replaced by).
Tab Go To (Go) in the dialog box Find and Replace (Find and Replace) allows you to navigate to specific page numbers, sections, lines, and other document parts or objects.
In addition, you can use the tab Go To (Go) to search for Word objects or document elements such as graphs and tables. Select the desired object in the list Go to what (Jump Object), then enter the search object and press Go To (Go to).
To close the Navigation Pane, click the down arrow next to the pane’s title bar, and from the menu that appears, select Fermer (Close). Using the same menu, you can move or resize the Navigation Pane.
Close a window Navigate (Navigation) you can also use the button Хlocated in the title bar of the pane window.
In Word 2010, Microsoft has improved the search and navigation tools to make it easier to navigate through a document, find text, styles, special characters, and more.