[RESOLVED] Bookmarks In Word Are Disappearing

I have a word document that I'm using as a template to prepare a letter. This template has several bookmarks which will be populated from a VB6 screen.

The problem that I'm having is that several of the bookmarks are disappearing when I open the finished product. Example:

The heading of the document contains todays date, the name of the letter receiptant, his/her title, company name, street address and city/state.

All of these are bookmarks.

It is layed out thus:

[Current_Date]

[Contact]
[Title]
[Provider]
[Street_Address]
[City]

However, when I run it, it looks like this:

[Current_Date]

[Title][City]

:confused: What the heck is going on?

As a picture is worth a thousands words, I've extracted the part of my project that creates this letter, and pasted it into a test project, which I've zipped and attached. The word template is also included. To get a visual on what is happening, just download the attachment, unzip it, run it, and click Command1.

Signed:


Baffled In Sterling Heights

This is not resolved in terms of knowing what caused the problem, but I have solved the issue.

I whacked all of my templates, and recreated them from scratch, and now my bookmarks are working just fine.

You shouldnt add text to a bookmark this way...

VB Code:

.ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("contact1").Select
   .Selection.Text = (cboContacts.Text)

You can blow away the actual bookmark by using the selection of it.

There is a Text property that you can use for more reliability.

VB Code:

.ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("contact1").Range.Text = cboContacts.Text

Also, in case you want to append to the bookmark then use the InsertAfter method.

VB Code:

ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("contact1").Range.InsertAfter = cboContacts.Text

Quote:

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Originally Posted by RobDog888

Also, in case you want to append to the bookmark then use the InsertAfter method.

VB Code:

ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("contact1").Range.InsertAfter = cboContacts.Text

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Thanks Rob....I didn't know about these two. :thumb: