[AccessD] Word Automation

[Borge Hansen]

Rocky,
I think the issue as you describe it is dealt with here:

https://wordribbon.tips.net/T007875_Protecting_Bookmarks

/borge

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 1:43 pm, rocky smolin <rockysmolin2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Dear List:
> This is a word automation problem in reverse.  Instead of pushing data onto
> a word form, the user , using a form they've used for a long time, wants the
> Access DB to get the info from the word form.
>
> Their process is that the person taking an order fills out the form, prints
> it and passes it to the person entering it into the DB. (Yes, I know they
> shouldn't do it that way.)
> The form already had text form fields for all the fields which I bookmarked
> to the fields in a table.
>
> The problem is that when one of the fields has data entered into it. The
> bookmark disappears, so that when my program tries to find the bookmark to
> get the data in the document's field, the bookmark is missing.
>
> Which means I'm also missing something.  How can one preserve the bookmark
> after data has been entered into the document's field?
>
> MTIA
> Rocky Smolin
> Beach Access Software
> 760-683-5777
> Please note new email address: rockysmolin2 at gmail.com
>