8 Things You Can Do Using The Navigation Pane in Word 2010

The Navigation Pane in Microsoft Word 2010 not only allows you to navigate easily in a long document, but also helps you perform a number of functions. In this post, check out 8 things you can do using the Navigation Pane in Word 2010. These options might come in handy when you’re browsing through a long document.

8 Things You Can Do Using The Navigation Pane in Word 2010

Move Within Long Documents

If your document has headers, the Navigation Pane displays them as tabs. You can click a tab to navigate to the page that contains that header information.

If you are looking for a specific graphic in your document, click the Browse the pages in your document tab in the Navigation Pane and all the graphics in your document are displayed as thumbnail images. Scroll up or down the pane and click the thumbnail to navigate to the desired page.

Find and Replace Text

In Word 2010, the search functionality is combined with the Navigation Pane’s functionality. So if you press Crtl+F, instead of the Search box, the Navigation Pane is displayed. Type the search term in the text box, and the Navigation Pane will locate instances of the text . Click the text in the pane to navigate to the desired page.

Additional Search Options

You can also search for more items and commands using the options in the Find Options and additional search commands drop-down list. The options available in this drop-down list include the following items.

Option – Displays the Find Option dialog box. This helps you narrow down your search. You can search for words that are upper cased or lower cased, find whole words, search using wildcards, search words which sound like the search term, search for different forms of the search word, search using suffix and prefix, and search by ignoring punctuation and whitespace.

Advanced Find – Displays the Find tab in the Find and Replace dialog box. You can search for a word or phrase by typing it in the Find what text box.

Replace – Displays the Replace tab in the Find and Replace dialog box. You can replace a word or phrase by typing it in the Replace with text box.

Go To – Displays the Go To tab in the Find and Replace dialog box. You can go to any item in the document such as a page, a graphic, a comment, or a bookmark, by selecting an item in the Go to what list box, and entering a name or number in the text box displayed to the right of the text box.

Graphics – Displays the next instance of a graphic in the document.

Tables – Displays the next instance of a table in the document.

Equations – Displays the next instance of an equation in the document.

Footnotes/Endnotes – Displays the next instance of a footnote or an endnote in the document.

Comments – Displays the next instance of a comment in the document.

Rearrange Sections of Text

Let’s say your document has a number of headings and you want to move one section to a different location in the document, you can click and drag a heading from one location in the Navigation Pane to another location. The text in the document is automatically relocated.

Nest Headings

You can nest headings within each other or make nested headings independent headings by demoting or promoting a heading. Right click a heading in the Navigation Pane and click Demote to nest a heading as a subheading and click Promote to remove a nested subheading.

Add and Delete Headings and Subheadings

The right click action on the headings in the Navigation Pane allows you to add a new heading or subheading, and delete one if required.

Select Heading and Content

Right click the headings in the Navigation Pane to choose the desired option to select a heading and its contents and print it.

Expand and Collapse Headings

The Expand and Collapse options on the right click menu enable you to view or hide the headings in the Navigation Pane.

You can now use the Navigation Pane effectively to work with data in your Word document.