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You can select the text or document location referenced by a bookmark very easily with a macro. For instance, let's say you had a bookmark named MyBkMark, and you wanted to select the text it represents. The following code fragment will do the trick:
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ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("MyBkMark").Select
You should note that the above will only work if you know the name of the bookmark. If you don't know a particular bookmark's name, you can use an index offset instead, as follows:
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(3).Select
When this code line is executed, the bookmark represented by index 3 is selected, regardless of the name. Another alternative, of course, is to retrieve the name of the defined bookmarks and then use them within your code.
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2019-04-12 05:39:03
bharath
I am having a word document in that i had given A as a bookmark for entire two pages and they are sub bookmarks in that main bookmark namely B,C,D. How I can select sub bookmarks(B, C,D)dynamically. I am using selection.Bookmarks(1) to get the bookmark name but it is giving main bookmark instead of sub-Bookmarks. Can anyone please help here.
2015-11-16 08:38:42
Alyssa
Hello,
I made a template with Checkboxes that hide/show certain tables with fill in content controls. IN my tmeplate the boxes work perfect and hide and show the bookmarked tables they refer to. But when I open a new document from the template, there seems to be nologic to what bookmarked tbale opens. For instance CheckMarkNew opens TableTools.
I even looked to make sure the book mark still took me to the correct table and it does.
What do you think the problem is?
here is an example of the code:
Private Sub CheckBoxNew_Click()
Bookmarks("NewTable").Range.Font.Hidden = CheckBoxNew.Value = False
End Sub
2014-12-12 05:01:54
Laurent
Hi Allen,
I would like to know if there is a limit in bookmarks numbers ? At the moment, there is a problem with one of my Word 2010 macro. Use to now, until 402 bookmarks, it was ok. But, beyond 402 bookmarks, there's a bug in execution.
Regards from France,
Laurent
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