You can't go to a bookmark in a Text Box?

Qani

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Apr 22, 2001, 4:07:41 AM4/22/01

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Is it true, as it appears in to me in Word2000, that you can't jump to a
bookmark that lies in a Text Box, starting from the general text? It
says "Word cannot find the requested bookmark". In this Text Boxes
differ from frames, in which bookmarks are visible from the general
text. However you CAN jump to a Text Box bookmark from within another
Text Box, and there appears to be no trouble finding a bookmark in the
general text from inside a Text Box.

Does this mean that if some of your bookmarks might lie within Text
Boxes, the only way of being sure of being able to access any bookmark
in the document is to start from within a Text Box?

Also, is it true that no keyboard shortcuts are possible for making or
jumping to bookmarks? I could not find any bookmark commands in List All
Commands.

Thanks for any advice.

David Rollo

Terry Farrell

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Apr 22, 2001, 4:47:16 AM4/22/01

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David,

what you say is correct. The text box is in the drawing layer and not in the
text layer. Can you use Frames instead of text boxes?

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John Nurick

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Apr 22, 2001, 1:04:28 PM4/22/01

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The "List All Commands" list isn't complete. It only lists commands
that can be run as if they were macros - and not even all of them.

You'll need to use some little macros and assign keyboard shortcuts to
them, like this, which brings up the Insert Bookmark dialog:

Sub EditInsertBookmark()
Application.dialogs(wdDialogInsertBookmark).Show
End Sub

or this,which takes you to the bookmark "Jones"

Sub GotoJones()
Activedocument.Bookmarks("Jones").Select
End Sub

The standard shortcut F5 brings up the Go To dialog, which lets you
jump to bookmarks or anything else.

On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 08:07:41 GMT, Qani <qa...@operamail.com> wrote:

>Also, is it true that no keyboard shortcuts are possible for making or
>jumping to bookmarks? I could not find any bookmark commands in List All
>Commands.

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John

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Qani

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Apr 22, 2001, 5:37:39 PM4/22/01

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Thanks to all, for these extremely helpful comments.
I'm still learning about the virtues of Text Boxes vs Frames. It's a +/-
situation, but Text Boxes seem more robust for what I'm trying to do with
sidebars (without linking).

David Rollo

Cindy Meister -WordMVP-

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Apr 23, 2001, 11:13:13 AM4/23/01

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Hi Qani,

> Also, is it true that no keyboard shortcuts are possible for making or
> jumping to bookmarks?
>

You can use macros to jump to bookmarks any where in a document, even
those in TextBoxes, headers and footers, etc. And macros can be assigned
to keyboard shortcuts.

the basic macro code is:

ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("TheName").Range.Select

Cindy Meister
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