WD2000: Add Button Unavailable for Insert/Bookmark

ID: Q201945

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you type a name that begins with the underscore (or other invalid) character in the Bookmark dialog box, the Add button is unavailable.

NOTE: To get to the Bookmark dialog box, click Bookmark on the Insert menu.

CAUSE

A bookmark name cannot begin with a number and cannot contain nonalphanumeric characters.

WORKAROUND

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In Microsoft Word, you can create hidden bookmarks by beginning the bookmark name with an underscore character ("_"). However, when you begin a bookmark name using the underscore character ("_") while in the Bookmark dialog box, the Add button remains unavailable (dimmed). However, you can programmatically create a hidden bookmark. Although the hidden bookmark does not show in the list of available bookmarks, you can still issue commands that use the bookmark.

Creating a hidden bookmark programmatically does not display an error message that the bookmark name is invalid.

NOTE: Beginning in Word 97 for Windows and Word 98 Macintosh Edition, you can view hidden bookmarks by selecting the Hidden Bookmarks check box in the Bookmark dialog box.

The following sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) demonstrates how to create a hidden bookmark in Word.


Sub CreateHiddenBookMark()

   Dim bmark As String

   ' Input box to request bookmark name.
   bmark = InputBox("Type a bookmark name preceded by an underscore")

   ' Add the bookmark name.
   ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add (bmark)

End Sub

REFERENCES

For more information about using the sample code in this article, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q212536 OFF2000: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q226118 OFF2000: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications

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Keywords          : kbdta kbdtacode OffVBA kbmacroexample kbwordvba wd2000 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: June 15, 1999