John,
I used Formfields, and went through them with the

FOR n = 1 to oWord.activedocument.formfields.count
   do case
   case oWord.activedocument.formfields.result = "Address1"
      do stuff
   case oWord.activedocument.formfields.result = "Address1"
      do other stuff
   endcase
NEXT

This picked up the Default text, not the bookmark, which I did deliberately - I was producing contracts where the same field information may be inserted a lot of times. When I needed the actual bookmark I used oWord.activedocument.formfields.name

The Do Case loop could get pretty long, but it ran pretty fast. It did take longer when I needed to build tables 'on the fly' for data of unknown record count. However the clients said they really liked having the 'Now entering Contract Name' 'Now building table of receivables' and other messages as it ran. They really didn't care if it took 2-3 minutes (for a 5 page contract) as long as they knew it was still working.

HTH
Barbara


>Hi Barbara,
>
>Do you store the names in an array to search for them?
>
>Thanks
>
>>Someone else may come up with a better way, but I do essentially the same thing and add a Wait Window that shows "1 of 30", "2 of 30" etc. User feels that things are flying along while he waits. Since I've had upwards of 150 items PLUS 3-5 tables it's important for the users to feel that they know what's happening.
>>