Transferring Bookmark Contents Between Files

[vicw]

I have a Form Template that I distribute for use by our sales force. They
complete the form and return, but also keep a copy for future use when
creating documents for the same customer. The template allows them to open a
document and re-use the content.

The problem comes when the template is updated and new fields (and
bookmarks) are added. The "old" forms become useless unless I can get the
contents of the bookmarks from the "old" docs to a new doc created from the
updated template.

I am limited to using Word 2003 VBA. What is the best way to handle this
problem?

 

[Helmut Weber]

Hi,

there are two kinds of bookmarks.
Ones that look like !bookmark, others that look like [bookmark].
Both have a range.text. But the range of the first kind is empty.
The text of the second kind is bookmark("Mark1").range.text, e.g.


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Helmut Weber, MVP, WordVBA

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