Setting the cursor for a new document

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Lüko Willms - 06 Oct 2006 10:42 GMT

Using MS-Word, I want to put the cursor at a specific place in
a new document which is being created on the basis of a template
which contains some VBA programming with a "Document_New" procedure.

The cursor should not be at the very top of the first page,
but at a specific, still empty, paragraph. The text before is part of
the template resp. generated via Fields.

I tried a

ActiveDocument.Goto What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="myBookmark"

and alternatively

ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.Goto What:=wdGoToBookmark,
Name:="myBookmark"

but it did not help.

What is the correct way to do this? What am I missing?

Yours,
L.W.
Germany

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Shauna Kelly - 06 Oct 2006 13:29 GMT

Hi Lüko

Here is one way:
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("MyBookmark").Select

If the bookmark covers several characters or words, you might then do:
Selection.Collapse wdCollapseStart 'or wdCollapseEnd

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word

> Using MS-Word, I want to put the cursor at a specific place in
> a new document which is being created on the basis of a template
[quoted text clipped - 20 lines]
> L.W.
> Germany

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Lüko Willms - 06 Oct 2006 18:43 GMT

Am Fri, 6 Oct 2006 12:29:39 UTC, schrieb "Shauna Kelly"
<ShaunaKelly@SendNoSpamToShaunaKelly.com> auf
microsoft.public.word.vba.beginners :

> Here is one way:
> ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("MyBookmark").Select

Thank you, that did the trick. The cursor is where I wanted it.

Yours,
L.W.

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