[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Why is the assignment of the bookmarks not practical? Are you doing it
manually? It would be very easy to write the necessary code to assign the
bookmarks automatically. In fact, the following will assign bookmark names
of Table1, Table2, etc in the blink of an eye:

Dim i As Long
With ActiveDocument
For i = 1 To .Tables.Count
.Bookmarks.Add Name:="Table" & i, Range:=.Tables(i).Range
Next i
End With


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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"jbell" wrote in message
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Hi All,

Im working in Word 2000 and trying to create a master Word document that
has tables linked to it from another Word document. The Word document that
contains the tables is automatically created by another, outside, program.
In
other words, when I run this third-party program, its output is a Word
document that contains a number of tables. I need a way to link these
tables
to my master document. The tricky part is that every time I run the
third-party program I get a new document with a different set of tables.
The
good news is that the tables are the same size and have the same
formatting
every time, only the data in the tables changes.

Ive tried assigning a Bookmark to each table every time the third-party
program runs and that works, but is not practical due to the number of
tables
(about 75) each time it runs. Ive also tried exporting the tables
en-masse
to an Excel file and then creating links to the master document using
Insert/File/Range based on cell positions. This works as far as moving the
data is concerned, but I lose table column formatting in the transition to
Excel.

Am I on the right track here? Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,
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Jim Bell