Bookmark issue

[54 peaks]

I am working in a document which has a set of bookmarks that go nowhere (when I select them in the insert bookmark dialog, the "Go To" button is not enabled). However, they have text associated with them. So if I edit the field, then select "Update Field", it reverts back to the old text. How do I change the text associated with the bookmark so when I do an update field, it gets my new text? In effect, I want to edit the text of all these unlinked bookmarks, then update my entire document with the new values

Using Word 2003 on X

Any ideas?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Confused here by your terminology - perhaps you can explain better?

Bookmarks are not supposed to 'go anywhere' . They are marked positions in a
document that may contain text.
The you mention updating a field - what field?


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[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?NTQgcGVha3M=?=,

This isn't making any sense, at least, not to me. With what character sequence do
these bookmarks' names begin?

You mention "edit the field". Are these bookmarks defined by SET fields? If you
press Alt+F9, do you see things like
{ SET bookmarkname "The text you want to edit" }

I am working in a document which has a set of bookmarks that go nowhere (when I

select them in the insert bookmark dialog, the "Go To" button is not enabled).
However, they have text associated with them. So if I edit the field, then select
"Update Field", it reverts back to the old text. How do I change the text
associated with the bookmark so when I do an update field, it gets my new text?
In effect, I want to edit the text of all these unlinked bookmarks, then update my
entire document with the new values.

Using Word 2003 on XP

Cindy Meister
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http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
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[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Bonjour,

Dans son message, < 54 peaks > écrivait :
In this message, < 54 peaks > wrote:

|| I am working in a document which has a set of bookmarks that go nowhere
(when I select them in
|| the insert bookmark dialog, the "Go To" button is not enabled). However,
they have text
|| associated with them. So if I edit the field, then select "Update
Field", it reverts back to
|| the old text. How do I change the text associated with the bookmark so
when I do an update
|| field, it gets my new text? In effect, I want to edit the text of all
these unlinked bookmarks,
|| then update my entire document with the new values.
||
|| Using Word 2003 on XP
||
|| Any ideas?

Are your bookmarks in a header or a footer? That is one case I can think of
that when you go to Insert > Bookmark and select a bookmark from the list
the "Go to" button is disabled.

If that is the case, open the header/footer before trying to get to the
bookmark.

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[Charles Kenyon]

What happens if you press Alt-F9 to reveal field codes? Your hyperlink won't
work but I suspect that GoTo will find the bookmark.

I apologize for the bad terminology. I did get an answer though. I had

several fields that referenced bookmarks. I could not find the bookmarks
that those fields referenced. The reason turned out to be that the
bookmarks were inside a text field (via ASK) that was sized very small.
Word apparently will not "Go To" (the button on the insert bookmarks dialog)
bookmarks within text fields. The text field containing the bookmarks was
in the main document - not in the header or footer. It was worse in my doc
because it was under a graphic. Someone finally noticed it when view fields
codes was turned on for the document (I had done this before, but I missed
it).

For future reference, is there any way to go to a bookmark that is located

in a text field when I am not in that text field? The only time the "Go To"
button was active was when I was in the text field itself. Or is there just
a way to tell me where the bookmark is so I can get in context (i.e. tell me
it is in a text field so I know to look for text fields or something along
those lines).

 

[54 peaks]

Alt F9 does show the field codes, but only if I resize the text box to be bigger. If I resize the smallest height allowed (it was just larger than the smallest originally), the field codes do not display at all. Just wondering if I ever get a document like this again with the text box resized to the smallest height, how would I ever find the bookmark.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Alt F9 does show the field codes, but only if I resize the text box
to be bigger. If I resize the smallest height allowed (it was just
larger than the smallest originally), the field codes do not display
at all. Just wondering if I ever get a document like this again with
the text box resized to the smallest height, how would I ever find
the bookmark.

The best you may be able to manage is to use F11 to move around the fields.
F11 moves the cursor to the next field.

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