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Freeze Part of Your Word Doc

August 19th, 2009 · Office 2007 · Word · Posted by Holly Green

The other day I was working on page five of a document, and really wished I could refer to something on page one.  Going to page one, and then going back to page five over and over gets old really fast.  Fortunately, you can use the Split feature in Word to view two different parts of your document at once.

Use Split View in a Word Document:

  1. Go to the View tab.
  2. Click on the Split button.
  3. A moveable grey bar will appear on your document.  Move your mouse until the bar is placed where you would like the document to split, and click.
  4. In the top view of the document, scroll to the section you would like to see.  In the bottom view of the document, scroll to the other portion you would like to see.

Un-Split Your Document:

  1. Go to the View tab.
  2. Click on the Remove Split button.

Make the Split Vertical:

  1. If your document has a split, remove it.
  2. Go to the View tab and click on the New Window button.  A second version of your document will open.
  3. In either version of the document, go to the View tab and click Arrange All.
  4. Resize and arrange the windows so you can view them side by side.

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  • 1 Asit Mohanty // Aug 23, 2009 at 11:39 pm

    This is cool. Thanx.

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