Bookmarks in tables (Word VBA)

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Hi folks – is there something special one needs to know to be able to code for adding a bookmark to a document? I need to be able to do so and all I did was record the creation of the bookmark and try to play it back – but everytime it says it doesn’t support this object – “object doesn’t support this property or method”. The entire macro just looks like this:

Sub RecBlock()
    Selection.TypeParagraph
    Selection.MoveUp Unit:=wdLine, Count:=1
    With ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
        .Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="RECIPIENT_NAME"
        .DefaultSorting = wdSortByName
        .ShowHidden = False
    End With
    Selection.MoveDown Unit:=wdLine, Count:=1
    With ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
        .Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="RECIPIENT_ADDRESS"
        .DefaultSorting = wdSortByName
        .ShowHidden = False
    End With
End Sub

Exactly as recorded, but it just won’t play!

Help!

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Hi Beryl,

Your macro runs OK when I try it in Word 2003, whether the insertion point is inside a table or not. Where exactly does the error occur?

BTW, the macro can be simplified to

Sub RecBlock()
Selection.TypeParagraph
Selection.MoveUp
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:=”RECIPIENT_NAME”
Selection.MoveDown
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:=”RECIPIENT_ADDRESS”
End Sub

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Hi Hans, thanks for this, and yes, I know about the simplification – I had done that myself, but I undid it when the macro kept crashing in an effort to find out why! The first two lines, to type a return and move back up to the line thus created work, then i get the error message, but it wouldn’t let me error check it!

However, I have now tracked down the problem – a couple of lines of rogue code had crept in and were screwing the whole thing up!

Sigh!

Thanks anyway and sorry for wasting your time!!

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