How do I open Word directly at a specific paragraph?

[Guest]

I need to open a Word document directly (from the command line) at one of
many different paragraphs. I can't use macros because Word does not allow
passing input arguments to top-level macros, and creating a separate macro
for each paragraph is obviously bad.

I could place bookmarks and save-as HTML (and then link to ...htm#bookmark),
but I'd rather open the original DOC, in MS Word.

Is there any way to do so?

(I have office 2K3 on WinXP SP2)

 

[Cindy M.]

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I need to open a Word document directly (from the command line) at one of
many different paragraphs. I can't use macros because Word does not allow
passing input arguments to top-level macros, and creating a separate macro
for each paragraph is obviously bad.

I could place bookmarks and save-as HTML (and then link to ...htm#bookmark),
but I'd rather open the original DOC, in MS Word.

Is there any way to do so?

No, there is not.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Steve Yandl]

An alternate option would be to use a script to launch the Word application
and pass the path to the document as one of the arguments to the script.
You could also pass the paragraph number and/or the name of a macro (if it
is known). Doing this, your command line would be for cscript.exe rather
than winword.exe.

Steve