Hi Sean,
OK, I see I neglected to ask whether this is a form with form fields, or with
just plain bookmarks. But you need either
ActiveDocument.Formfields("Name").Result
or
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("name").Range.Text
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Quote:
> Yes, the bookmarks are still present at that point.
> > There is if the code doing the inserting retains the bookmarks? Are they
> still
> > there? Can you change the code, if they're not?
> > > I have a word template that contains bookmarks. When a form is filled in
> and
> > > submitted, the template's bookmarks get populated with the information
> from
> > > the form. The user then saves this info as a new document. Now, when i
> open
> > > a word document that has already been created (ie. bookmarks are filled
> in),
> > > I want to go to each bookmark and suck out the info and put it back into
> the
> > > form and also delete anything after each bookmark. Is there an easy way
> to
> > > do this?
Cindy Meister
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