identifying portions of text without using a bookmark

[Chip Orange]

I have a template which allows a user to position within a document and
cause some text to be inserted. This may happen many times throughout the
document, and I need later to be able to find these portions of text (to
extract them). The only way I know to do this is by using bookmarks, but I
understand that you can't have more than one passage of text marked with a
given bookmark name.

Should I try to generate a sequence of unique bookmark names that I can work
through later to identify which ones belong to my set of bookmarks, or is
there a betterway to do this?

thanks.

Chip

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Could you use a special style name to identify the inserted text?

 

[Chip Orange]

thanks for the suggestion, but this text will already have a style (or
various styles) applied for formatting reasons, so as I understand styles
then I could not apply a second one to it.

Chip

 

[Lynn Taylor]

Are you using VBA at all to do any of the inserting and/or
extraction. If you are, when you insert the text, you
could add a bookmark around the text, give the bookmark a
name like bmk1 and at the next insertion increase the
number by 1, so the next insertion would wrap a bookmark
called bmk 2. Let me know if you need help with the VBA.

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thanks for the suggestion, but this text will already have a style (or
various styles) applied for formatting reasons, so as I understand styles
then I could not apply a second one to it.

Chip


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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You could use a character style that doesn't actually change the formatting
(Default Paragraph Font +).

thanks for the suggestion, but this text will already have a style (or
various styles) applied for formatting reasons, so as I understand styles
then I could not apply a second one to it.

Chip

 

[Chip Orange]

thanks, that was my plan (yes, I'm using vba), if nothing better presented
itself, to come up with a way to enclose each portion of text in a uniquely
named bookmark, and name it in such a way that another program later, could
recognize it as being part of the desired series of bookmarks.

thanks.

Chip

Are you using VBA at all to do any of the inserting and/or
extraction. If you are, when you insert the text, you
could add a bookmark around the text, give the bookmark a
name like bmk1 and at the next insertion increase the
number by 1, so the next insertion would wrap a bookmark
called bmk 2. Let me know if you need help with the VBA.

 

[Chip Orange]

If they already have a character style in use can you have more than one on
the same section of text?

thanks.

You could use a character style that doesn't actually change the formatting
(Default Paragraph Font +).



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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

No, I don't think so. Sorry.

If they already have a character style in use can you have more than one on
the same section of text?

thanks.

You could use a character style that doesn't actually change the formatting
(Default Paragraph Font +).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Klaus Linke]

Hi Chip,

If you don't mind dirty hacks, and all your text has color=automatic, you
could use color=black or some custom color that's indistinguishable from
black.
You can later retrieve everything formatted in a certain color with Find.

If a user adds new text, it'll continue in the current color... but that
would be the behaviour of bookmarks, too (anything typed in them is added to
them).

Greetings,
Klaus

 

[Chip Orange]

thanks; it's worth considering, I'd have to be sure they'd never have color
(we do use it here).

Chip