Hi Doug,

Ok, forget Ibby. Do you concede that it is humanly possible for a person,
not yourself of course, to create a document that has a dispersion of
bookmarks some enclosing text and some with a zero length range and that
these bookmarks of the second type have at least, by a small segment of the
population, been referred to as "placeholder bookmarks?"

This person then makes the following request:

I need to Delete All Bookmarks at once in a word document - it is not a
template
A very knowledgeable person replies.

If you want to delete the bookmarks and their contents, then use:


Dim i As Long
With ActiveDocument
For i = .Bookmarks.Count To 1 Step -1
.Bookmarks(i).Range.Delete
Next i
End With

The person ponders and decides yes I do want to delete the bookmarks and
their contents. He or she executes the code and thousands of bookmarks
vanish in the blink of an eye. FileSave quit Word and off to catch the
morning train.

Can you imagine the dismay when that person realizes later that many of the
bookmarks, the placeholder type, are still present and not only that but a
single adjacent character has been deleted instead?

Cheers




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"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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Hi Greg,

That makes it an Ibby term. I searched for it in the Word Help file and
did not come up with it.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
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Doug,

I got the term "Placeholder bookmark" he
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...hBookmarks.htm

(1) Placeholder Bookmarks
If you click somewhere in the document and insert a bookmark it will look
like a beam I - this is a "placeholder" bookmark.

If a document has one of those kind and you run this code:

Sub Test()
Dim i As Long
With ActiveDocument
For i = .Bookmarks.Count To 1 Step -1
.Bookmarks(i).Range.Delete
Next i
End With
End Sub

It will delete the character following the bookmark and leave the
bookmark intact (i.e, it doesn't delete the bookmark). I am not trying
to justify what is or is not the correct way to use bookmarks, merely
pointing out that running the above code in a document that does contain
a "placeholder bookmark" will have undesirable results. ;-)


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Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote:
Hi Greg,

Your version of "placeholder bookmarks" do not have content and the
second macro was for use if you wanted to delete both the bookmarks
AND their contents.

While as far as I can tell, there is no term in Word that equates to a
"placeholder bookmark", my version of it would always include a
single space so that if I used .InsertBefore on the .Range of the
bookmark, the text would be inserted inside the bookmark and could
thus be cross-referenced.
"Greg" wrote in message
oups.com...
Doug,

Run the code you posted with a couple of placeholder bookmarks and
you will see undesirable results. The character immediately to the
right of the bookmark is deleted but the bookmark stays put ;-(

Sub Test()
Dim i As Long
With ActiveDocument
For i = .Bookmarks.Count To 1 Step -1
.Bookmarks(i).Range.Delete
Next i
End With
End Sub

Now consider this:
Sub DeleteAllBookmarksRefined()
Dim i As Long
With ActiveDocument
For i = .Bookmarks.Count To 1 Step -1
If Len(.Bookmarks(i).Range) 0 Then
.Bookmarks(i).Range.Delete
Else
.Bookmarks(i).Delete
End If
Next i
End With
End Sub

Cheers.