>Hi all,
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>I am going to be generating letters, in MS-WOrd, using templates (maintained by the user) and bookmarks to fill in information from data, after a benefit check printing run. Anywhere from 10 - 150 letters might be printed.
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>Many letters include the same information (date, amount of check). But additional information differs, depending on the type of benefit...there may be an applicant name and address, wage earner name and address, beneficiary name and address, etc.
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>At first i thought i'd set up a table, w/an entry for each type of bookmark and specify which letters each bookmark should be contained in. But maybe that is overkill.
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>Now i'm wondering if, when generating the letters, i should just check to see if the bookmark exists in the template, and if so, fill in the appropriate information. My concern is speed. There will be at least 22 bookmarks to check for, but probably only an average of 7 will apply in any one letter.
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>Does anyone have a feel if checking for the existance of a bookmark is a sloooow thing to do? I have code that checks for the bookmark as follows:
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IF oAppInfo.oWord.Documents[1].Bookmarks.EXISTS( m.lcBookmarkName )

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>Thanks for any input....J

Hi Jill,

I have cases with more than 100 checks for existing bookmarks and I did not notice any performance hit. I think you're safe.

José