Bookmarks & MailMerge

[Alan UK]

We have a letter that contains some bookmarks, but before
we use these as references in VBA, the document is subject
to a mailmerge to bring in some personal data. The merges
have no relationship to the bookmarks.
The bookmarks are all deleted, however, by the action of
the mail merge.
Whilst it would be possible, if labourious, to
programmatically re-insert the bookmarks after the merge
we would like to prevent them disappearing in the first
place. Their whole function was save coding in finding a
point the document. Is this possible?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

No, it is not. However you could insert macrobutton fields and have your
code replace them with bookmarks at the start of your procedure (post
merge). Bookmarks have to be unique in a document and in a typical mailmerge
they could not be.

OTH, I do merges with documents that have bookmarks in them and they work.
However, I do not merge to printer or document, just to the screen. I am
simply working with one record. I edit the merge result on screen, print and
save it. I don't have a clue how to implement this in vba, though.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Alan,

We have a letter that contains some bookmarks, but before
we use these as references in VBA, the document is subject
to a mailmerge to bring in some personal data. The merges
have no relationship to the bookmarks.
The bookmarks are all deleted, however, by the action of
the mail merge.
Whilst it would be possible, if labourious, to
programmatically re-insert the bookmarks after the merge
we would like to prevent them disappearing in the first
place. Their whole function was save coding in finding a
point the document. Is this possible?

No, as Charles says, it's not. But which version of Word is
involved? And, assuming it's 2002 or 2003, could the bookmark
processing take place during the merge (i.e. it's not
something that would need to be done at a later point, on a
saved document)?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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