Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: Reusing a Bookmark.
As you learn in other issues of WordTips, bookmarks allow you to assign names to text or to positions in your document. In this way you locate them easily, just like when you put a physical bookmark in a book to save your place. To reuse a bookmark you previously defined, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Bookmark dialog box.
You aren't, of course, adding a new bookmark. Word recognizes the existing name that you selected in step 3 and then redefines it to point to the selected item or position from step 1.
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