Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

The Document Map

The Document Map doesn’t actually look like a map. It looks like a portable table of contents that’s open as you read. This unusual view can save you hours of tiresome scrolling (see Figure 6-12).

Figure 6-12. When you click a heading in the left pane of the Document Map, you automatically jump to that point in your document in the right pane. There’s no quicker way to get from one place to another in a long document. Plus, when you click the mouse somewhere in your document, that topic is highlighted in the Document Map.

The Document Map

What’s in the Document Map

In essence, the Document Map is a navigating pane revealing just the headings in a document. A heading, in this case, can be any text in one of Word’s built-in heading styles, a style you’ve based on one of the built-in heading styles, or text to which you’ve applied an outline level.

Viewing and Navigating the Document Map

To see the Document Map, you need to open the Navigation Pane. You can do that by either choosing View → Navigation Pane or clicking the Navigation Pane icon on the Standard toolbar. A narrow panel with its own vertical scroll bar opens on the left side of your document window. From the little menu at the top of the pane, choose Document Map. (Your other choice—Thumbnails—is described on Adding template pages and in Figure 6-13.)

Figure 6-13. For truly visual creatures, Word has a great way ...