Navigation Pane

Quick reference

• 00:05 On the View ribbon is the Navigation Pane.
• 00:07 In my opinion, one of the most important tools available in Microsoft Word.
• 00:11 In fact, when I'm in Word, I always have a check mark in the Navigation Pane,
• 00:15 it always resides on the left-hand side of my screen.
• 00:18 Now when I just turn that on, you can easily, at a glance,
• 00:21 see that I've got two pages.
• 00:22 And the beauty about this is it defaults to the thumbnail views, but
• 00:27 take a look at the Headings.
• 00:29 When I click on Headings, now we have a list of all the headings in this document.
• 00:33 And I can literally click and go directly to whatever heading I want to go to.
• 00:39 So if you have a 30 page document and it is set up with headings,
• 00:43 it is fantastic just to hop, skip, jump around that document.
• 00:47 All right, now the Pages of course, that's kind of awesome as well,
• 00:50 because you can actually see the layout and format on each page.
• 00:54 Now I want to make this skinnier.
• 00:55 So I can flip my mouse over on the edge of this and
• 00:58 I can make this a little narrower.
• 01:01 So now I have a vertical list of those pages.
• 01:04 It's your personal preference of how you want to see your Navigation Pane and
• 01:08 how much room you want to allow it to take.
• 01:11 What are the results?
• 01:12 Well, in a previous lesson, we had done the Ctrl + F for find, Ctrl + H for
• 01:16 replace, and so that is also located on the Navigation Pane, which is why it's so
• 01:21 valuable to have open all the time.
• 01:23 On that note,
• 01:24 make sure you hit the drop down arrow when you're in the results view.
• 01:27 because it's not just a matter of finding words, you can also find Graphics, Tables,
• 01:32 Equations, Footnotes/Endnotes, comments, kind of a cool feature.
• 01:36 All right, let's focus back on the Pages and work with the Navigation Pane itself.
• 01:40 Notice when I float my mouse into the heading where Navigation is I get a four
• 01:44 arrow, that's a moving arrow.
• 01:46 I call it north, south, east, or west, move it somewhere.
• 01:49 So I'm going to click and drag, but it's not going to glide out of here,
• 01:52 kind of snaps out, so don't give up.
• 01:54 Okay, click and dragging, and then it finally released to moved out.
• 01:58 This allows me to stretch the Navigation Pane as tall as I want it to be.
• 02:04 I can also move it to a second monitor, whoosh, right out to a second monitor, or
• 02:08 bring it right back.
• 02:09 I can also do a slow on the edge, a slow, slow, slow, click and
• 02:14 drag and it will dock.
• 02:16 It will dock itself to the right hand side.
• 02:19 Click and drag it out of there, and maybe slowly dock it to the left.
• 02:22 So it's either floating or docked, kind of that water park theme.
• 02:27 When you have your Navigation Pane open, you have a lot of visibility into
• 02:31 what's happening with the document, that's why it's so important.
• 02:36 So again, I can click from page to page, I can click the Headings and
• 02:41 skip around, hop, skip, jump from heading to heading.
• 02:45 If I'm on the very bottom of it, notice this little up arrow takes me directly to
• 02:50 the beginning, or I can look at the results of the Navigation Pane,
• 02:54 which of course, is my find replace settings.
• 02:57 It's so cool, leave your Navigation Pane on all the time.
• 03:00 In fact, for the rest of these lessons, I'm probably going to have my
• 03:03 Navigation Pane over on the left hand side of my screen.

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