The highlighting is just for testing. I'm actually collecting the page position of the bookmark and the cell widths and heights. This is then used to OCR just those areas after the forms are filled out and scanned in. I have been collecting this bookmark info already but it is slow. Right now I just delete the access record and let VBA update the new record six times. If there is no solution I will just continue on, and maybe look for a solution at a later time. As a note the Word documents (field forms) are created/revised/update every few months, this is when the word documents are processed for the bookmark positions. Usually the forms are printed with their info pulled in from an Access database. They then go to the field and are filled in, signed and dated, returned to the office where they scanned and OCR'ed.

Huh? Why would you scan, then OCR something that is already text?? Sounds bizarre to me. Why not simply extract the required content directly?

Even so, what fumei says is relevant - you can interrogate the bookmarks directly (without selecting them) to get all you need to know about where they are, including where their cells are on the page and the cell dimensions, and all without ever looking at anything else in the document.

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