Use the Word 2003 thumbnail feature to quickly browse long documents

Introduction: In Word 2003, you can use the thumbnail feature to quickly view the layout of multi-page pages of long documents, and using the Thumbnail pane saves valuable time for users when you need to find elements in longer documents. You can also quickly navigate to a page in a document by using the Thumbnail pane.

Before Microsoft Office 2003 appeared, users had to use Print preview to view the overall layout of multiple pages at the same time when they used word to view the layout of the page. With Word 2003, you can view thumbnails of multiple pages at the same time without leaving the editing state of the document. In Word 2003, viewing a page in thumbnail form is now supported in the four views of normal view, page view, reading layout view, and outline view.

In these four views, you can open the thumbnail pane by selecting the menu command view → thumbnail, which appears to the left of the word window. As shown in Figure 1, is the thumbnail pane in normal view.

Figure 1 thumbnail panes in normal view

The thumbnail pane allows users to view the overall layout of multiple pages at the same time, for example, if you want to see which pages have a header or footer added in normal view, you can open the thumbnail pane to view them, which is very quick and easy to find. Another useful tip for the thumbnail pane is that if you want to jump to a page in a long document, you can click the page's thumbnail directly in the pane.

The thumbnail pane can be dragged to resize, move the mouse pointer to the right edge of the thumbnail pane, and when the pointer changes to a two-headed double-headed arrow, press the left key to resize. If you double-click the edge, the Thumbnail pane is closed.