[Beth]

Hi there,

Hopefully this will make sense, here goes.......I create templates in Word
XP - for some reason, if someone inadvertently deletes a bookmark an error
occurs while trying to run other macros within the template or while simply
trying to make revisions to a document (created with it). People tend to
delete them because they don't know what they are.

This never used to happen before (I'm assuming it's due to a patch or
upgrade run by our Administrator/IT group).

Is there "any" way at all I can protect them or put a line of code that
would not allow them to be deleted? Or any other solution for that matter?

Thanks as always for your advice and help
Beth

[Jezebel]

You need to modify your macros to defend against the problem: either use the
..Exists function to test for the existence of the macro, or use error
trapping.





"Beth" wrote in message
...
Hi there,

Hopefully this will make sense, here goes.......I create templates in Word
XP - for some reason, if someone inadvertently deletes a bookmark an error
occurs while trying to run other macros within the template or while
simply
trying to make revisions to a document (created with it). People tend to
delete them because they don't know what they are.

This never used to happen before (I'm assuming it's due to a patch or
upgrade run by our Administrator/IT group).

Is there "any" way at all I can protect them or put a line of code that
would not allow them to be deleted? Or any other solution for that
matter?

Thanks as always for your advice and help
Beth

[Beth]

Thanks so much Jezebel, sounds like it is something I can prevent then....
Now I apologize but I'm not an expert and am still learing all this 'code
business' - is there somewhere (possibly a link) that I can look for some
ideas on exactly how to do this? : )

Thanks again
Beth

"Jezebel" wrote:

You need to modify your macros to defend against the problem: either use the
..Exists function to test for the existence of the macro, or use error
trapping.





"Beth" wrote in message
...
Hi there,

Hopefully this will make sense, here goes.......I create templates in Word
XP - for some reason, if someone inadvertently deletes a bookmark an error
occurs while trying to run other macros within the template or while
simply
trying to make revisions to a document (created with it). People tend to
delete them because they don't know what they are.

This never used to happen before (I'm assuming it's due to a patch or
upgrade run by our Administrator/IT group).

Is there "any" way at all I can protect them or put a line of code that
would not allow them to be deleted? Or any other solution for that
matter?

Thanks as always for your advice and help
Beth

[Cindy M.]

Hi Beth,

is there somewhere (possibly a link) that I can look for some
ideas on exactly how to do this? : )

Assuming the bookmark's name is BK1:
If ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Exists("BK1") Then
'Do whatever, the bookmark is there
Else
'Do something else, or nothing, because it's missing
End If

If I have a lot of these tests, and the action I want to perform
for the bookmarks is basically the same, I'll put this in a
separate function so that I don't have to repeat it multiple
times.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17
2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Beth]

Thanks for the tip Cindy - I'll give it a try and see what happens (after I
visit your homepage of course : )

Beth

"Cindy M." wrote:

Hi Beth,

is there somewhere (possibly a link) that I can look for some
ideas on exactly how to do this? : )

Assuming the bookmark's name is BK1:
If ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Exists("BK1") Then
'Do whatever, the bookmark is there
Else
'Do something else, or nothing, because it's missing
End If

If I have a lot of these tests, and the action I want to perform
for the bookmarks is basically the same, I'll put this in a
separate function so that I don't have to repeat it multiple
times.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17
2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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