Finding and reading a DOCVARIABLE

[christophercbrewster via OfficeKB.com]

[This supersedes my earlier posting about a powerpoint tag.]

When I do Insert > Field in Word, and insert a DOCVARIABLE with the name of
the variable, the resulting field looks like this:

{DOCVARIABLE "VarName" \*MERGEFORMAT}

I can find one of these using this:

Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToField, Which:=wdGoToNext, Count:=1, Name:=
"DOCVARIABLE"

The above statement leaves the cursor at the field's location, but I don't
know how to use the variable. I need to read the name of the doc variable, do
something wtih it, and show the value in my text. Is this possible? Any other
way to do this?

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Christopher Brewster
Lockheed Martin, Eagan MN

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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

To assign a value to a document variable, you must use VBA

ActiveDocument.Variables("VarName").Value = "Something"

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