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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / December 2003Multiple bookmarks
Hi, I'm using vb.net to merge data to a Word 2000 document. The document is set up as a letter and I've inserted bookmarks to merge the data. How do I have multiple bookmarks to merge the same data. ie I have bookmarks for client name and address at the top of the document, but I also want client name further down the letter. I don't want to have ClientName1, ClientName2 etc. Any ideas? It depends on exactly what you are doing. My guess is that you are just using the bookmarks as placeholders, and the bookmarks are lost when you insert the data. The simplest change to that approach would probably be to insert the data, then bookmark the newly inserted data. Then, suppose you had a bookmark called ClientName, you can use { REF ClientName } fields to insert further copies of the bookmarked information elsewhere in your document - you may need to .Execute all the fields in the appropriate range. Alternatively if your data is always just plain text, you could consider using Word document variables to contain the texts you want to use, and use { DOCVARIABLE } fields to insert the texts. I think that approach is reasonably safe in Word 2000 - in earlier versions DOCVARIABLE fields in headers could crash Word. -- Peter Jamieson - Word MVP > Hi, > I'm using vb.net to merge data to a Word 2000 document. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > also want client name further down the letter. I don't > want to have ClientName1, ClientName2 etc. Any ideas? .Execute should be .Update Doh! -- Peter Jamieson - Word MVP > It depends on exactly what you are doing. My guess is that you are just > using the bookmarks as placeholders, and the bookmarks are lost when you [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > also want client name further down the letter. I don't > > want to have ClientName1, ClientName2 etc. Any ideas? Thanks for the help Peter. You are right, I am using the bookmarks as placeholders and this works fine. A simple objWordDoc.Bookmarks.Item("CompanyName").Range.InsertAfter (txtCompanyName.Text) inserts the company name in the bookmark "CompanyName". However, if I put a field code further down the document such as {ref CompanyName} I get a blank. I can only toggle between blank and the field code! Maybe it's because I'm not doing an .Update - to what does this method belong? >-----Original Message----- >..Execute should be .Update [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > >. ActiveDocument.Fields.Update() If this is what you mean, it has not had an effect. Still showing the field code and not the CompanyName!!! >-----Original Message----- >Thanks for the help Peter. You are right, I am using the [quoted text clipped - 67 lines] >> >. Hi John, No, the problem is that the bookmark doesn't CONTAIN the string you're inserting. It's more like an insertion point: I You need this kind of bookmark: [string] And in order to get it, you need to work with the Range object a bit differently. Roughly: bkm = doc.Bookmarks.Item("CompanyName") If doc.Bookmarks.Exists("CompanyName") Then rng = bkm.Range rng.Text = txtcompanyName.Text doc.Bookmarks.Add(Name:="CompanyName"), Range:=rng) End If > Thanks for the help Peter. You are right, I am using the > bookmarks as placeholders and this works fine. A simple [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > between blank and the field code! Maybe it's because I'm > not doing an .Update - to what does this method belong? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003) http://www.mvps.org/word This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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