Hello, I know this has been answered in some way by @Macropod, that very neatly summarizes a Word Doc's Bookmarks and Cross-Refrences. However Looking at their work and trying to modify it to better suite my needs has been challenging. Before I found their post I was looking around and testing diffrent VBA Scripts. I cannot for the life of me figure it out.

My Problem is that I have a huge Word document with many Bookmarks and Crossrefrences. The document is ever changing and always being modified. I need a way to list all of my Bookmarks and Cross-Refrences, so that I may test them and see if they still work and/or need to be updated.

I've tried many diffrent ways including looking at the XML data and so on. Thanks again and if anyone has other ideas please feel free to suggest them.

What is your definition of a working cross-reference? If it points at a non-existent bookmark then the xRef will return an Error message in the document. If the bookmark has expanded because of someone pasting content at the start of a bookmark then it can be much harder to spot unless it is now displaying a '0' paragraph number.

Maybe a sensible workflow would be to run a macro to highlight all xRef fields and then run a find to jump from highlight to highlight and let you eyeball the field result in context before jumping to the next one.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

It seems that I confused myself and everyone as well. I guess what I am trying to do is not only list out all of my bookmarks and cross-references but also list out all of the linked words/phrases. I have some values that lead out to external websites and some that go to a directory. I would like a list so that I can test the external links and the ones that point to a location in the files.

I was messing around with using chatgpt to write some VBA but i was reading that it is not very good at writing correct code.