Nottingham Trent University have recently installed batches of Microsoft Office 2010 into most of the resource rooms around site. With dissertation writing becoming ever more dominant, there is one feature which helps keep a degree (no pun intended) of calm. It also stop’s exhaustive mouse-wheel scrolling to find the correct page in a labyrinthine of chapters, subheadings and page numbers!
I’m talking (obviously!) about the Navigation Pane, New and Improved for Word 2010. The navigation pane can be found by going to ‘View’ and checking ‘Navigation Page’ (obviously, again!). It sorts chapters, headings, sub headings and even sub-sub headings (providing they have been set up correctly via the ‘Styles’ feature in Word).
This indexes all the headings and sub-headings down the left hand side of the page, allowing for quick access to any section. Furthermore, using the format which allows the navigation pane to work correctly also allows automatic contents page generation, by clicking Insert > Reference > Index and Tables > Table of Contents.
