What causes "OLE_LINK" bookmarks?

[Jim Tortorelli]

Sometimes I go to insert a bookmark and find there are one to a dozen
bookmarks with names like "OLE_LINK2" already in the document that I did not
intentionally put there.

Were did they come from?
Can I delete them?

Thanks,

Jim T

 

[Jezebel]

They are a by-product of copying and pasting between documents, or from a
document to another application like Excel. You can delete them unless you
pasted an actual link (using Edit > PasteSpecial and check 'Paste link'). To
understand what's going on, create two documents. Add some text to the
first, copy it, switch to the second and paste it as a link. Now press
Alt-F9 to display field codes in the second document. You'll see something
like

{ LINK Word.Document "Document1" "OLE_LINK1" }

That is, the field in document2 is displaying the contents of the bookmark
OLE_LINK1 in document1.