>>Does anyone know if it's possible to determine the Maximum Length and Data Type of a bookmark in MS Word?
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>You could find the length of a bookmark by checking its Start and End properties and subtracting them. I didn't know that a bookmark's type could be anything but object...


Watch out if you are using getBookmark() - in certain versions of Word you'll only get back a maximum of 255 chars instead of 32768 (and you'll probably get an error also): this is true for wordBasic, not sure about VBA.