Macro to protect document leaves brackets where the cursor is

macropod · #6 03-04-2018, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by jtwite

Did that work for you on the document that I uploaded, because it doesn't work for me.

Of course it did; I wouldn't have written post 7 otherwise.

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Originally Posted by jtwite

We are pretty locked down at my office so maybe our IT department is locking something down that is causing this ... Is there something I can put in the VBA code to stop that bar from showing up?

If it's 'locked down' as you say, you won't be able to do anything; otherwise you might use:
ActiveWindow.View.ShowBookmarks = False
but, if that works, so too would unchecking the 'Show bookmarks' option.

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Originally Posted by jtwite

This never used to happen, but that was probably with an older version of Word.

Word has had that setting for at least two decades.

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