WD: How to Select the Current Page in a Word Document

 Last reviewed: February 2, 1998
Article ID: Q80959
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.1a
  • Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 2.0, 2.0a, 2.0a-CD, 2.0b, 2.0c
  • Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c
  • Microsoft Word for Windows 95, versions 7.0, 7.0a
  • Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
  • Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, versions 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.1a
  • Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition

SUMMARY

In Microsoft Word, you can select the current page in a document by choosing the Edit Go To command and typing "\page" (without quotation marks) in the Go To box.

MORE INFORMATION

"\Page" is a special bookmark in Word. When you use this bookmark with the Edit GoTo command, the current page, from page break to page break, is selected.

For more information on special bookmarks, query on the following words in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   special and bookmarks and wordbasic and macro and language

REFERENCES

"Using WordBasic," by WexTech Systems and Microsoft, pages 88-90

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Version : WINDOWS:1.x,2.x,6.0,6.0a 6.0c,7.0,7.0a,97; MACINTOSH: 6.0,6.0.1,6.0.1a,98
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Last reviewed: February 2, 1998
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