bookmark disapears

[colleen medin]

Have a page with two identical forms. Each form has some repeated fields. On
the first form I added a bookmark for each of the fields I wanted to repeat
on form 2. I protect the document & enter the text for each field. However,
the first fields bookmark disappears. The rest of the bookmarks are ok & the
fields repeat ok. What am I doing wrong? TIA

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Colleen,

Have a page with two identical forms. Each form has some repeated fields. On
the first form I added a bookmark for each of the fields I wanted to repeat
on form 2. I protect the document & enter the text for each field. However,
the first fields bookmark disappears. The rest of the bookmarks are ok & the
fields repeat ok. What am I doing wrong? TIA

Bookmark names must be unique in a document. you need to assign different
bookmark names to the second "form" in the document.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[colleen medin]

Hi Colleen,

Bookmark names must be unique in a document. you need to assign different
bookmark names to the second "form" in the document.

We do have unique name for all the bookmarks. However, the fields in the
second form reference the fields in the first form. What happens is the
first referenced bookmark disappears so the field that references that
bookmark gets Error ... . The rest of the bookmarks remain & the referencing
fields are ok.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Colleen,

We do have unique name for all the bookmarks. However, the fields in the
second form reference the fields in the first form. What happens is the
first referenced bookmark disappears so the field that references that
bookmark gets Error ... . The rest of the bookmarks remain & the referencing
fields are ok.

I guess I misunderstood your original question. OK, just read through it
again, and I have to ask: why are you adding bookmarks? Why not use the form
field names for the REF fields? (DOuble click any form field to open the
Options; you can see and change the name). My best guess would be that you
somehow inserted the bookmark in such a way that it's being deleted when you
type.

Also, do make sure to activate "Calculate on Exit" for the form fields so that
the REF fields will update (display what you type).

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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