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How to select the current page in a Word document

Author: Sun Last Modified: 2024-09-14

When working with Word documents, you may need to quickly select the entire current page for editing, copying, or formatting purposes. And Word provides several efficient methods to select the current page.

In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to easily select the current page from a whole document in Word using 4 methods:

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Select current page manually in Word

Here are two simple methods to manually select the current page in Word:

Method 1: Click at the beginning of the page and drag the cursor to the end of the page to select all the content.

Method 2: Click at the beginning of the first character on the current page. Then, hold down the Shift key and click at the end of the page's content to select the entire page.


Select current page using a bookmark in Word

1. Put the cursor on the page you want to select.

2. Click Insert > Bookmark to apply the Bookmark dialog.

3. When the Bookmark dialog popping up, type β€œ\page” in the box, then click Go To, then it will automatically select the current page where the cursor locates. See screenshot:

Bookmark dialog


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Select current page with VBA

1: Press Alt+F11 to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window;

2: Click Module from Insert tab, copy and paste the following VBA code into the Module window;

3: Click Run Run button button or press F5 to apply the VBA.

The VBA code on selecting current page:

Sub selectcurrentpage ()
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("\page").Range.Select
End Sub

Select current page with Kutools for Word

Kutools for Word's Select Current Page utility can quickly select the current page.

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1. Please put the cursor on the page where you want to select as the current page.

2. And then apply this utility by clicking Kutools > Pages > Select Current Page, see screenshot:

Select Current Page option on the Kutools tab on the ribbon

3. After clicking Select Current Page, the page where the cursor locates is selected.

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