WD98: Macro to Move Insertion Point to Top of Current Page

ID: Q183136

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition

SUMMARY

In 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.

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

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

For more information about adding a command to a menu, click Contents And Index on the Help menu (or on the Balloon Help menu if you are using a version of the Macintosh operating system earlier than 8.0), click the Index button in Word Help, type the following text

   menus, commands

and then click Show Topics. Select the "Add a command or other item to a menu" topic, and click Go To. If you are unable to find the information you need, ask the Office Assistant.

For additional information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q182586
   TITLE     : WD98: How to Use Built-in (or Predefined) Bookmarks in VBA

   ARTICLE-ID: Q181058
   TITLE     : OFF98: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

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

   ARTICLE-ID: Q94977
   TITLE     : 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 article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q163435
   TITLE     : VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for
               Applications

Additional query words: wordcon vb vba vbe

Keywords          : OffVBA macword98 
Platform          : MACINTOSH
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: April 7, 1999