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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / April 2005Befuddled by Bookmarks
I am really becoming confused when it comes to navigating bookmarks. I have no problem when I reference bookmarks by name, but I run into problems whenever I try to vavigate based on wdGotoNext, wdGotoAbsolute, wdGotoFirst, etc. I have a document with 3 bookmarks (the msgbox confirms this when I run the macro below). However, the code below always returns "The bookmark does not exist". when it hits the .Goto. What am I missing? Public Sub macro2() Dim rng As Range MsgBox ActiveDocument.Range.Bookmarks.Count Set rng = ActiveDocument.Range.GoTo(wdGoToBookmark, wdGoToAbsolute, 2) End Sub >I am really becoming confused when it comes to navigating bookmarks. I have >no problem when I reference bookmarks by name, but I run into problems [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Set rng = ActiveDocument.Range.GoTo(wdGoToBookmark, wdGoToAbsolute, 2) >End Sub I think the GoTo method is semi-broken, but I never use it for this kind of application anyway. This statement does the same thing and is 100% reliable: Set rng = ActiveDocument.Range.Bookmarks(2).Range Technically, if the GoTo method worked as documented, it would return "that represents the start position of the specified item", so you'd have to follow the Set statement with rng.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart to get the same result, but if you really wanted the range of the entire bookmark then you can omit it. There is a small wrinkle to this, which you may want to take advantage of someday... The expression ActiveDocument.Range.Bookmarks(2).Range returns the range of the second bookmark *by physical location in the document*, while ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(2).Range returns the range of the second bookmark *alphabetically by name in the list of bookmarks*. This difference corresponds to the two sorting orders you can see in the Insert > Bookmark dialog when you click the "Name" and "Location" radio buttons. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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