How do you get MS-Word to always open to the last page of a multi-page document? The document is a daily journal

Question

Not much to include here, I simply want my Word document to always open to the last page of the document so I can pick-up where I last left-off. The document is a daily journal.

Answer 1

You can press Shift+F5 after opening the document to move to the last editing position.

Answer 2

It doesn’t appear to be possible to open at the end, but pressing Ctrl+End will get you there in one keystroke.

Answer 3

If you open a Word document AND go to the end of that document and then close it, this action will be saved in the Registry at:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Word\Reading Locations\ (notice the '16.0' version of mine) where Word saves the HEX representation of the viewed paragraph and the (probable) combination of the position of the clicked character in relation to the total occurrence of the same. So, since Word 2013, as soon as you reopen this file, Word will show a popUp inviting you to pick up where you left off. Very useful for continuing reading or editing. If you don't want to do this, just ignore this popUp, which automatically disappears in a few seconds. See this article and this other.

Answer 4

You can do this using VBA code. It does require that your Word document is saved as a "Word Macro Enabled Document" so a .docm file rather than a .docx. It also requires that the document is a trusted document for the macros/vba to run - but that's the easy bit as Word should prompt for this when you first open it.

You will need to have the "Developer" tab visible so you can get to the Visual Basic editor. (File > Options > Customize Ribbon, put a tick next to the "Developer" main tab.)

Open your document. (Save it as Word-Macro-Enabled-Document if you haven't already done so.) Open the Visual Basic editor (on the Developer tab). Under "Project" add a new module. Then copy the following into that module:

Sub AutoOpen()
    Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdStory
End Sub

Save. Close your document. Re-open - and if you then get the prompt about needing to make it a trusted document then do so (that's a one off activity) - and it should jump to the end of the document.