Getting the Names of Defined Bookmarks with WordBasic

Chances are good that you already know how to use bookmarks. (Other WordTips have described how to define and manipulate them.) If you are creating macros, you may have a need to retrieve the names of the bookmarks defined within a document.

WordBasic lets you retrieve bookmark names by using the contents of the BookmarkName array. The syntax of the statement is as follows:

x$ = BookmarkName(y)

where y is the offset pointer to the bookmark name wanted. After executing the statement, x$ will contain the name of the bookmark specified by the pointer. To make this function useful, you really should read all the bookmark names into an array, which you can then manipulate. The following code fragment will do the trick:

Dim Bmk() As String
Dim x As Integer, J As Integer

x = CountBookmarks
Dim Bmk$(x)
For j = 1 to x
    Bmk$(j) = BookmarkName(j)
Next j