Hi M,

You have a wrong idea here.

What you're calling a "single word bookmark" is actually a "text form
field". The part that's confusing is that each form field has a bookmark
associated with it, which serves as the form field's name. The properties in
the dialog are associated with the "form-field-ness", not with the
"bookmark-ness".

Other bookmarks -- what you're calling a "bookmarked block of text" -- that
are not associated with form fields are just bookmarks. They don't behave
the same way as form fields at all, and specifically they don't have
properties such as calculate on exit or maximum length.

A plain bookmark, without a form field, can contain anything from the entire
document to a single word, or a single character, or nothing at all (that
is, the start and end positions are the same). Conversely, a text form field
can contain many words. That is, length in characters or words has nothing
to do with the distinction.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

MRolko wrote:
Single word bookmarks have properties such as checkboxes for fill-in
enabled, calculate on edit, length settings... These appear in a text
formfield options popup on clicking properties, so I was wondering
how to see the equivalent info for a bookmarked block of text. I am
trying to learn as much as possible about bookmarks to debug some
bookmarks that I cannot replace the text therein from a VBA call
(from an Access application). Thanks.

"Jezebel" wrote:

A bookmark is nothing other than a range of document (ie a Name,
Start point, and End point). It doesn't have any properties
independent of the underlying text. What properties do you want to
review?