Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated July 31, 2021)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021
If you have quite a few bookmarks in your documents, you may want to highlight them, perhaps by making them bold, so that you can see them better. Word provides a direct way to highlight bookmarks:
Figure 1. The Advanced options of the Word Options dialog box.
The result is that any bookmarks in the document are surrounded by [brackets]. These don't print, but only appear on-screen and are very helpful in visually locating the bookmarks.
If you actually want to make the bookmarks bold, one approach is to create a special character style to be used for bookmarks. You could set the style to be bold, and then apply it to all your bookmarked text.
You can also use a macro to make your bookmarks bold. The following macro will step through each bookmark in a document and make its text bold:
Sub BookMarks2Bold() Dim bm As Bookmark Dim tx As Range Set tx = ActiveDocument.StoryRanges(wdMainTextStory) For Each bm In tx.Bookmarks bm.Range.Bold = True Next End Sub
If you later want to turn off the bold attribute for bookmarks, you can do so by changing True to False in the line that actually does the property assignment.
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2021-07-31 07:19:07
An alternative that is probably relevant to this problem is also applicable to the problem of recognising footnotes and endnotes in the body of a document.
I use a Style sheet in which I modify the FOOTNOTE REFERENCE Style to BOLD which improves the visibility of the reference both to myself and to the reader using the finalised document.
In addition, for many documents, I make two further changes in that Style "Footnote Reference":
* I Increase the text size - which may necessitate altering the line spacing of the underlying text style, and
* Change the Footnote Reference style to use a different colour (red).
Since I usually print documents on a Black/white printer this has minimal impact on the printed output, but makes the referenced text easier to recognise.
Ciao from "Down under."
JB
jimboyle@optusnet.com.au
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