How do I get rid of book marks without getting rid of the enclosed text..

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Admin

This may sound like an obvious question, but I have discovered a whole bunch
of bookmarks in a document that nobody seems to know how they got there.
The bookmarks enclose large sections of formatted text and I afraid if I
move the text I will screw up the formatting and have to redo large sections
of text.
Everyone of the bookmarks begin with OLE_LINK with sequential numbers
following that.

I am not sure if they harm anything, but they are in weird places and are
probably the result of copying text from another document. I don't know if
they will interfere with the Table of Contents which also uses bookmarks,
hidden bookmarks to generate an accurate page listing.

Can someone explain this to me?
 
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Cindy M -WordMVP-

Hi Admin,

OLE_Link bookmarks were likely set when the text was paste-linked somewhere.
If you were to select a table, then link that to an MS Graph, for example,
you'd get an OLE_Link bookmark. So, the question becomes: is this document an
important source of linked text to other files?

If it is, I'd consider using Save As to create a new document and make your
changes in that.
This may sound like an obvious question, but I have discovered a whole bunch
of bookmarks in a document that nobody seems to know how they got there.
The bookmarks enclose large sections of formatted text and I afraid if I
move the text I will screw up the formatting and have to redo large sections
of text.
Everyone of the bookmarks begin with OLE_LINK with sequential numbers
following that.

I am not sure if they harm anything, but they are in weird places and are
probably the result of copying text from another document. I don't know if
they will interfere with the Table of Contents which also uses bookmarks,
hidden bookmarks to generate an accurate page listing.
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Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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