What's up with the new Navigation pane in Word 2010? For months, I've just sort of ignored it. Turns out it lets you do some powerful things pretty easily.

By understanding the nature of your content, you can quickly see problems with a document's structure and correct them using only one tool: Word's Navigation pane.

How to view the Navigation pane in long Microsoft Word documents If you don’t want to add a full table of contents to your document, you can achieve a similar effect through the Navigation pane.

Figure D Use Word’s Navigation pane to move quickly in either pane. The navigation pane displays hyperlinks to the headers.

Navigation Pane: Use the navigation pane to quickly move between sections, search for keywords, and rearrange content.