Thread: Inserting multiple bookmarks

I'm new to VBA in word though have done a bit in excel. I have what I think will be a simple issue. In a document I want to autocomplete a number of fields from strings gathered from a userform and stored in variables. I can achieve this by using:

ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("name").Range.Text = namestring

However I can only create a single bookmark called "name" in the document if I want to insert this same text in multiple places in the document how can I do this?

Hi tryer,

I'd suggest using a custom document property instead of a bookmark, because bookmarks are all too easily deleted by accident. If you create a custom document property named 'MyProp' (with, say, a space as the default value), then you can update that property with your code and have DOCPROPERTY fields, coded as {DOCPROPERTY MyProp} wherever you need them in the document to replicate the value. The code to do this might look like:

With ActiveDocument
  .CustomDocumentProperties("MyProp").Text = namestring
  .Fields.Update
End With

Note: The field brace pairs (ie '{ }') for the DOCPROPERTY field example are created via Ctrl-F9 - you can't simply type them or copy & paste them from this message.

Hi tryer,

The property must be created before you can use it. To create the custom property, go to File|Properties|Advanced > Custom