WD2000: Macro to Move Insertion Point to Top of Current Page

ID: Q212699

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 2000

SUMMARY

In Microsoft Word, there is no built-in feature that moves the insertion point to the top of the current page. However, you can achieve this result by using a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro with the Bookmark property.

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The following macro moves the insertion point to the top of the current page using the predefined built-in bookmark "\Page" named argument.


Sub GoToTopOfPage()
    Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="\Page"
    Selection.MoveLeft Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
End Sub

For more information about predefined bookmarks, in the Visual Basic Editor, click Microsoft Visual Basic Help on the Help menu, type predefined bookmarks in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topic.

For information about how to do this in earlier versions of Microsoft Word that use WordBasic, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q94977 WD: Macros to Move Insertion Point to Top of Current Page

REFERENCES

For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q212536 OFF2000: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

Q226118 OFF2000: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications

Additional query words: vb vba vbe

Keywords : macword98 word97 wd2000
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto