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Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated May 4, 2022)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
Some people absolutely love bookmarks. They do come in handy, but if someone else set bookmarks in a document, you may not need them once you get the document from them. If there are many, many bookmarks set (remember, we are talking about people who really love bookmarks), removing them all one at a time can be rather tedious.
If you find yourself in this situation, you will want to keep the following macro handy. It examines the active document (the one you are looking at) and removes all the bookmarks within it.
Sub RemoveAllBookmarks() Dim objBookmark As Bookmark For Each objBookmark In ActiveDocument.Bookmarks objBookmark.Delete Next End Sub
You should note that this simply deletes the bookmark, not any text referenced by the bookmark.
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2024-10-12 04:53:58
Ken Endacott
The macro RemoveAllBookmarks removes all bookmarks including hidden bookmarks. Hidden bookmarks have an underscore as the first character of their name and are used by Tables of Contents and some fields. Removing them can give error messages.
The macro RemoveAllUserBookmarks below will remove only user defined bookmarks.
Sub RemoveAllUserBookmarks()
Dim objBookmark As Bookmark
For Each objBookmark In ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
If Left(objBookmark.Name, 1) <> "_" Then objBookmark.Delete
Next
End Sub
2024-10-10 05:07:33
David Cone
Found a possible solution.
Go into Insert Bookmark, and I found a bookmark at the top of the list with a blank title.
Deleted that manually and the macro worked correctly after that.
2023-01-13 07:40:20
nevzat
i have the same problem:
Hi Allen, I tried your macro for deleting bookmarks and am getting the error 5891 "that property is not available on that object" .
Do you have any idea for how I might troubleshoot this?
Thanks
2022-09-13 10:24:25
jen
Hi Allen, I tried your macro for deleting bookmarks and am getting the error 5891 "that property is not available on that object" .
Do you have any idea for how I might troubleshoot this?
Thanks
2020-07-23 00:33:01
Thank you, Allen for this macro.
2019-03-05 16:38:52
Camila
Thank you so much!
2018-01-31 15:07:35
Charles Robinson
How do i remove all bookmarks from only part of a document?
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