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MS Word Bookmarks

Hello,

I have a Word doc that has bookmarks that are programatically populated from another program. Sometimes the text is too long and the bookmark wraps. Is there a way to reduce the font size if it gets too long? As it gets longer and longer, the font size would just keep shrinking so that it doesn't wrap.

Thanks,
Joel

GrahamSkan

I can't think of a simple way of doing that. It would be better to arrange the overflow so that it looks OK.

Post a non-confidential sample so that we can give more targeted advice.

Colleen Kayter

Genius, you say you're using bookmarks, but are you inserting text with or without links? Do you anticipate the source text changing after the insertion (dynamic links)? Your cross references are not formatted with character styles and they assume the formatting of the paragraph in which they are inserted.

That said, how much automation do you require? I've dealt with linking text to external documents and it can get messy. You've only accepted solutions for 4 of the 99 questions you've asked so please respond to Graham's request and my questions to show you are really interested in finding a solution.

Genius123

ASKER

Not sure why it says I've only accepted 4 solutions. I've accepted far far more than that.

The bookmark is only populated once. So if you have a table in the Word doc, you can make the cell "Fit text" in the table properties. I'm trying to figure out a way to do that with a bookmark.

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Genius123

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Thanks Colleen, this will work for me.

Colleen Kayter

Glad I could help. And glad this isn't my project. ;-)