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How review properties of existing block of text that is a bookmark
A Word document contains several bookmarks that are each defined on a block
of text, i.e. each bookmark is defined on multiple words. e.g. a sentence or paragraph. How do I view the properties of those bookmarks? I can get to the bookmarks with Insert - bookmark - goto,. However, when I go to such a bookmark or select all the text in the bookmark and right click, there is no 'properties' menu item, like there is for a bookmakr defined on a single word. Thanks. |
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How review properties of existing block of text that is a bookmark
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? "MRolko" wrote in message ... A Word document contains several bookmarks that are each defined on a block of text, i.e. each bookmark is defined on multiple words. e.g. a sentence or paragraph. How do I view the properties of those bookmarks? I can get to the bookmarks with Insert - bookmark - goto,. However, when I go to such a bookmark or select all the text in the bookmark and right click, there is no 'properties' menu item, like there is for a bookmakr defined on a single word. Thanks. |
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How review properties of existing block of text that is a book
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? |
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How review properties of existing block of text that is a book
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. -- 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? |
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