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: Printing a Bookmark List.
Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated August 4, 2022)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
Word provides a very powerful bookmark facility that allows you to assign names to either individual positions in your document or to text selections. As you work more with Word, and particularly in long documents, it would be helpful to periodically print a list of bookmarks. Unfortunately, Word does not provide an automatic method of printing bookmarks, as it does with other document-related information. The quickest way to print a bookmark list is to just insert the list in your document and then print it. The following VBA macro inserts the bookmark list at the insertion point:
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:
Sub BkMarkList()
Dim J as Integer
Selection.TypeParagraph
Selection.InsertBreak Type:=wdColumnBreak
Selection.TypeText Text:="Bookmark list for "
Selection.TypeText Text:=ActiveDocument.Name
Selection.TypeParagraph
For J = 1 To ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Count
Selection.TypeText Text:=Chr(9)
Selection.TypeText Text:=ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(J).Name
Selection.TypeParagraph
Next J
Selection.InsertBreak Type:=wdColumnBreak
End Sub
When you run the macro, a heading indicating the name of the file will be inserted, followed by each bookmark in the file. These will be in alphabetic order. The bookmark list has a column break before it and after it, as well. You can then print out the single page that contains the bookmark list. When you are done printing, you can delete the bookmark list.
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2017-12-13 23:40:46
jamal
I have a code in Word that extracts all references in the document in a table showing its name, page number, and line.
This is the code:
Sub ListBkMrks()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim oBkMrk As Bookmark, rng As Range, StrTxt As String, StrStory As String
With ActiveDocument
Set rng = .Range.Characters.Last
If .Bookmarks.Count > 0 Then
With rng
.Text = vbCrLf & "Bookmark" & vbTab & "Page" & vbTab & "Line" & vbTab & "Story Range" & vbTab & "Contents"
For Each oBkMrk In ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
.InsertAfter vbCrLf & oBkMrk.Name & vbTab
.InsertAfter oBkMrk.Range.Characters.First.Information(wdActiveEndAdjustedPageNumber)
.InsertAfter vbTab & oBkMrk.Range.Information(wdFirstCharacterLineNumber)
Select Case oBkMrk.StoryType
Case 1: StrStory = "Main text"
Case 2: StrStory = "Footnotes"
Case 3: StrStory = "Endnotes"
Case 4: StrStory = "Comments"
Case 5: StrStory = "Text frame"
Case 6: StrStory = "Even pages header"
Case 7: StrStory = "Primary header"
Case 8: StrStory = "Even pages footer"
Case 9: StrStory = "Primary footer"
Case 10: StrStory = "First page header"
Case 11: StrStory = "First page footer"
Case 12: StrStory = "Footnote separator"
Case 13: StrStory = "Footnote continuation separator"
Case 14: StrStory = "Footnote continuation notice"
Case 15: StrStory = "Endnote separator"
Case 16: StrStory = "Endnote continuation separator"
Case 17: StrStory = "Endnote continuation notice"
Case Else: StrStory = "Unknown"
End Select
.InsertAfter vbTab & StrStory & vbTab & oBkMrk.Range.Text
Next oBkMrk
.Start = .Start + 1
.ConvertToTable Separator:=vbTab
.Tables(1).Rows.First.Range.Font.Bold = True
'.Copy
End With
End If
End With
Set rng = Nothing
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
I just want a code to make this code copy all references from this document with the same name and same page number, and the same number of lines in another document
2016-03-20 13:10:16
Jim Walton
If you need the list in location order rather than alphabetical order, here is a quick fix:
Change:
Selection.TypeText Text:=ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(J).Name
To:
Selection.TypeText Text:=ActiveDocument.Range.Bookmarks(J).Name
This works for Word 2016.
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