Using VBA to access bookmarks in the Header Area (Word 2000 VBA)

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Can anyone tell me how to use VBA to access bookmarks that are located in the header area. Or can you recommend another solution for inserting data collected from a user form into the header section?

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By access, do you mean put data at the bookmark or retrieve text found there? Both?

If you want to programmatically put text in a header you can use bookmarks, but document properties and document variables would be a better way to go.

(In Word 97, document variables in a header of footer will crash Word, but Word 200x handles them fine.)

Just put a reference to the doc var or doc prop in your header. Assign values to the doc var, for example, like this:

Sub DocVarAssign(DocVar As String, ByVal DocValue As Variant)
On Error Resume Next
With ActiveDocument
.Variables(DocVar).Delete
.Variables.Add Name:=DocVar, Value:=DocValue
End With
End Sub

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If you do need to stick to bookmarks, then the code is simply:

ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(“bmkName”).Range.Text = txtTextBox.Text

– it doesn’t matter if the bookmark is in the header or footer, the text will get inserted.

Gary

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