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Mac Word 2019: Make Navigation Pane Default to "Document Map"

Anonymous
2022-02-03T16:29:14+00:00

Hi Everyone:

Is there a way to make the Navigation Pane default to "Document Map" rather than to "Thumbnails Pane"? Currently when I open a document, the Navigation Pane is open, but it always defaults to "Thumbnails Pane" and I manually change it to document map.

In previous versions of Word, there was a specific command "view document map" that could be assigned to a button, toolbar, etc. Using this would open up the document map, and the map would be displayed whenever you re-opened the document.

I haven't found this ability in 2019. Is there a way to open your document, and have the document map (rather than thumbnails) displayed?

Thanks for your thoughts!

JC

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-02-03T18:09:51+00:00

    I checked again, and you actually can assign "Show or Hide the Document Map Pane" to the QAT. If I do this, I can use the assigned button to open up the document map. However, when I close the document and then open it again, the "thumbnails" pane is displayed (so, some setting is telling Word to use "thumbnails" as default).

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  2. Bob Jones AKA CyberTaz MVP 435.3K Reputation points
    2022-02-03T17:10:01+00:00

    Perhaps programmatically but that's out of my territory.

    It isn't available for the QAT but maybe just assigning a keyboard shortcut to the ViewDocumentMap command would suffice?

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  3. Bob Jones AKA CyberTaz MVP 435.3K Reputation points
    2022-02-03T20:58:20+00:00

    (so, some setting is telling Word to use "thumbnails" as default).

    That's true, but it isn't one that's accessible to the user by way of a setting or Preference... IOW, it's hard coded.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-03T20:08:25+00:00

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-03T17:55:13+00:00

    I have word 2019 and it opens 'Headings' by default. I have to click on 'Pages' to get the Thumbnail View.

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