>Hi Yuri,
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>The bookmarkID worked but in the end, the GoTo() method only moves the *range* to that point and does not visually move the insertion point (although that might be workable, it's not what my wrapper function is trying to do). It seems that I have to instead use the .Select() method of the bookmark to move to and select the bookmark i.e.
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>loBookmark = loDocument.Bookmarks.ItemID(tcBookmarkName)
>loBookmark.Select()
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>This has the "down side" of actually selecting the bookmark which may prove to be troublesome but I will have to work with it for now.
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>On another note, one of your lines of code needs fixing up a bit (and it is also wrong in the book I am using, it seems, so it seems to be a common mistake). This:
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>oWord.Selection.GoTo(wdGoToBookmark,,,tcBookmarkName)
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>* should be:
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>oWord.Application.Selection.GoTo(wdGoToBookmark,,tcBookmarkName)
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>(just in case some one else reads this thread. At least, I could not get it to work any other way).
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>Albert


Albert,

Do you need INsertAfter, or move the cursor, or both?
You do not need to move the cursor, or select the range to modify the document content:

with oword.activedocument.BOOKMARKs("bookmark_name").Range
   .InsertAFter("Hello")
ENDWITH