ok i know this may be a silly question, but where do i see the name of a text
box. If I have 5 text boxes on a doc, where do i see their respective names?
TextBox1, TextBox2, etc.
Thanks,
Elbio
If you mean text boxes as in "Insert > Text Box", they don't have
names unless you use a macro to assign names to them, and then the
names are visible only to a macro. For example, you can assign one
like
ActiveDocument.Shapes(1).Name = "TextBox1"
and then you would be able to get the text it contains with
aString = ActiveDocument.Shapes("TextBox1").TextFrame.TextRange.Text
If you mean text boxes as in text form fields, double-click each one
in turn to open its Properties dialog. The box labeled "Bookmark"
shows the name of the form field.