Inserting a flag into rtf with vba (VBA for Word 97/2000)

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Is it possible to use vba to insert a flag into the rtf of a Word document that can later be found by VBA?

For instance, can I select text and put a flag at the beginning and end of the text I selected? I would want the flag (or whatever it should be called) to not affect the text, but be found by vba at a later time, so that I can perform some actions on that selection.

Thanks for your help!!
Troy

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Use the bookmarks. To work out the code…
Record the act of creating a bookmark and then the act of GoTo for a bookmark. That should give you all you need to work with.

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The problem with bookmarks is you can only assign them to one location. What I didn’t mention before is that I want to be able to use the same flag for different locations.

I could use a character style (and probably I will at first), but that will be a problem if the text already contains a character style.

Thanks again!!
Troy

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Troy

I would still use bookmarks but increment the number for each separate bookmark. Then you can cycle through the bookmarks to select each one which starts with xxx to “GoTo” and process. Here is a simple example

Sub temp2()
Dim x As Variant
For Each x In ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
  If Left(x, 4) = "Text" Then
    x.Select
  End If
Next x
End Sub

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