Gentlemen, thank you. I am getting nowhere, through no fault of yours, of course. I am so far unable simply to get the Includetext field to do anything but return an "invalid file name" message. So far, my research on the field syntax is completely unproductive, so I'll probably have to wait till the weekend.

Just to explain briefly, I tried the code Paul indicated, with the full path name, and with various attempts, based on that and MS support pages, to include or not include a bookmark in various ways.

At present, I have, on my desktop, a folder, "Form", in which are my "form" document and Text1.docx, the latter with two bookmarks, Check1 and Check 2, the first a paragraph, the second an empty paragraph, for the unchecked box return as I think I understood your suggestion.

The MS page, perhaps outdated, indicates no need for a full document path in the include text field, but full or not, as I said, and with as much careful scrutiny of this unfamiliar syntax as I can give, no luck.

I'll get back to you once I have done some more homework.

Best, Philip