When defining a Form Field on a Word (2000) document, the pop-up window only
allows 20 chars for the Bookmark name. In the documentation it states that a
bookmark name can be 40 characters.
....How to
..Insert a Text Form Field on your word document
..double click on the field to enter names
.. enter default text (which shows on the doc)
.. under Bookmark: (the field name) only 20 characters are allowed.
I run a background agent which uses this name to find and populate data on
the Word document (forall x in Workbook.names ) I need additional
characters.

Hi ?B?SnVkaQ==?=,

When defining a Form Field on a Word (2000) document, the pop-up window only
allows 20 chars for the Bookmark name. In the documentation it states that a
bookmark name can be 40 characters.
....How to
..Insert a Text Form Field on your word document
..double click on the field to enter names
.. enter default text (which shows on the doc)
.. under Bookmark: (the field name) only 20 characters are allowed.
I run a background agent which uses this name to find and populate data on
the Word document (forall x in Workbook.names ) I need additional
characters.

It's possible to select the form field and apply the name using Insert/Bookmark.
I recommend, however, that you first delete the default name that Word assigns
the form field in the Options dialog box.

What I don't know, however, is how well this approach will work with that
"background agent".

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Thank you Cindy, I'll try that and let you know if it works.

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote:

Hi ?B?SnVkaQ==?=,

When defining a Form Field on a Word (2000) document, the pop-up window only
allows 20 chars for the Bookmark name. In the documentation it states that a
bookmark name can be 40 characters.
....How to
..Insert a Text Form Field on your word document
..double click on the field to enter names
.. enter default text (which shows on the doc)
.. under Bookmark: (the field name) only 20 characters are allowed.
I run a background agent which uses this name to find and populate data on
the Word document (forall x in Workbook.names ) I need additional
characters.

It's possible to select the form field and apply the name using Insert/Bookmark.
I recommend, however, that you first delete the default name that Word assigns
the form field in the Options dialog box.

What I don't know, however, is how well this approach will work with that
"background agent".

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply
in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)