VBA-Excel: Working with Bookmarks- Insert text before Bookmark

For inserting the text before the Bookmark in an existing Microsoft Word Document using Microsoft Excel, you need to follow the steps below:

Add a Bookmark “IMBOOKMARK” with name “bookmark_1”

• Create the object of Microsoft Word
• Create Doc object using MS word object, Open the existing word document by providing the complete path
• Make the MS Word visible
• Get the range object for the bookmark
• Insert the text before the bookmark
• Save the word document
• Close the word document

Create the object of Microsoft Word

Set objWord = CreateObject(“Word.Application”)

Create Doc object using MS word object, Open the existing word document by providing the complete path

Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Open("D:\OpenMe.docx")

Make the MS Word Visible

objWord.Visible = True

Get the range object for the bookmark

Set objRange = objDoc.Bookmarks("bookmark_1").Range

Insert the text before the bookmark

objRange.InsertBefore ("I will be added before bookmark        ")

Save the Word Document

objDoc.Save

Close the word document

objWord.Quit

Complete Code:

Function FnBookMarkInsertBefore()

   Dim objWord

   Dim objDoc

   Dim objRange

   Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")

   Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Open("D:\OpenMe.docx")

   objWord.Visible = True

 Set objRange = objDoc.Bookmarks("bookmark_1").Range

    objRange.InsertBefore ("I will be added before bookmark        ")

End Function

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