Question

In Word 2010 I want to add text to a document, bookmark this text and then cross reference this text in the header and footer of the document.

Can this be recorded or will I have to code it?

Answer 1

Yes it is possible.

Yes you can record in Word – allthough with some limitations as you can’t navigate thru your text by mouse when in recording mode; the generated code will be ugly and full of "hard coding" but will give you an impression which objects, methods and properties might be relevant..

If you want a solution that is a bit more sustainable than a one-off, proper coding surely is the way to go. You should make friends with the following in order to solve your task:

• the Selection object and its methods, especially GoTo, Move and its variants
• the way to extend a cursor to mark text
• inserting text using various Insert… methods (e.g. Selection.InsertCrossReference ReferenceType:="Bookmark" ...)
• adding bookmarks to the Bookmarks collection
• understanding how to manipulate headers & footers

Try some coding and come back with more sopecific questions if you get stuck.