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Bookmark text doesn't show when display of bookmarks is enabled - finding names of Bookmarksof book
Greetings, I have added bookmarks to a document and have checked the 'Show bookmarks checkbox. All it shows is a placeholder (indicated with the red arrow) - (see pic attached)
However, another MS word document which I inherited (and which may have used a different version of MS word), shows the bookmark text correctly when enabled. Any ideas? Thanks Russell |
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What you are seeing is what Word displays when a bookmark is applied to an empty selection.
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Cheers, Paul Edstein [Fmr MS MVP - Word] |
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Thanks for reply - but could you explain what that means please? (I just want to see any created bookmark with its name). They're in a row in a table
[edit] - each book mark per row [edit 2] < - ok the original document wasn't actually showing the bookmark name, it was just a selected heading which was then bookmarked. So I guess you can't see the bookmark name without sowing your list of them? Regards Russell |
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It means you had nothing selected when you created the bookmark. Hardly surprising, since the cell appears to be empty.
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Russell,
Macropod has answered your question. There is a bookmark. That marks a place in a document. There is nothing in the bookmark. This is easy to create and is often done to provide a place for insertion. |
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Thanks Charles - got it. I was just hoping that MS Word had a means of allowing me to view all the bookmarks with their name given to the bookmark at its specific location in the document at once. I'm needing to preserve the names for a new document used in a production environment. So would have easier to look and copy, without accessing the dropdown list each time.
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If that is what you want then you should be using Content Controls rather than bookmarks. You can use the Title property of a Content Control to show a 'name' associated with each placeholder.
Bookmarks don't have an easy way to figure out their name and can confusing because they may overlap each other like a Venn Diagram.
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Andrew Lockton Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia |
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Great, thanks for that
Russell |
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Also, look into using Mapped Content Controls.
I've altered your title from "MS Word 2016 Bookmark text doesn't show when display of bookmarks is enabled" so that future users of the forum can more easily find relevant content. |
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Thanks - I'll have a look.
Regards Russell |
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