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: Getting Bookmark Information in VBA.
Assuming the insertion point is located within a bookmark, John wonders how he can use VBA to discover the name of that bookmark and to select all the text within the bookmark.
There are a couple of tricks to keep in mind when working with bookmarks. First, it is best not to assume that the insertion point is within a bookmark. Instead, you can verify if it is within a bookmark by using the following code:
BkMkCount = Selection.Bookmarks.Count
When executed, BkMkCount will contain a value indicating the number of bookmarks. If you are expecting only a single bookmark, then you can verify that the variable is equal to 1 before you proceed with your code.
If you want to figure out the name of the bookmark, then you can use the following:
BkMkName = Selection.Bookmarks(1).Name
If you then want to select all the text in the bookmark, use the following:
Selection.Bookmarks(1).Select
To bring all these concepts together you can use a structure such as the following:
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: 
BkMkCount = Selection.Bookmarks.Count
If BkMkCount = 1 Then
With Selection.Bookmarks(1)
BkMkName =.Name
.Select
End With
End If
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2015-06-24 10:56:12
Sirajeddine
Hello,
I am copying tables from Excel to word and pasting them as metafile pictures.
I have 2 questions here:
1) How to resize the pictures to fit the page in word (A4) ?
2) How to add headers including bookmarks to these picures: for example above the first picture I want to have the text: Table 1 : Age
above the second picture I want to have the title: Table 2 : Location, ...etc
Many thanks in advance.
2014-09-11 14:46:04
Ron
Sub Is_Bookmark()
BkMkCount = Selection.BookMarks.Count
If BkMkCount = 1 Then
With Selection.BookMarks(1)
BkMkName = .Name
.Select
MsgBox BkMkName
End With
Else
MsgBox "Bookmark is empty"
End If
End Sub
2014-05-07 06:54:18
kem
Hi, thank you for this code. But what if the cursor is not within a bookmark.
How can I handle that?
Kem
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