Did that work for you on the document that I uploaded, because it doesn't work for me. We are pretty locked down at my office so maybe our IT department is locking something down that is causing this The moment I hit the keyboard combination as posted, that bar shows up. Is there something I can put in the VBA code to stop that bar from showing up? I will try again, but whenever I go into that setting the show bookmarks is not checked. This never used to happen, but that was probably with an older version of Word.