Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007 and 2010. If you are using an earlier version (Word 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Word, click here: Printing a Bookmark List with Contents.
Alberto uses bookmarks extensively in his documents. He would like to be able to print out a list of all the bookmarks in a document, along with any text that each bookmark may contain.
In other issues of WordTips there have been various macros that allow the printing of a list of bookmarks in a document. Those macros, however, fell short of actually printing the contents of the bookmarks. This macro will actually print the contents:
Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007 and 2010. If you are using an earlier version (Word 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Word, click here: 
Sub PrintBookMarks()
Dim B As Bookmark
Selection.TypeParagraph
Selection.InsertBreak Type:=wdColumnBreak
Selection.TypeText Text:="Bookmark list for "
Selection.TypeText Text:=ActiveDocument.Name
Selection.TypeParagraph
For Each B In ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
Selection.TypeText Text:=B.Name
Selection.TypeParagraph
Selection.TypeText Text:=B.Range.Text
Selection.TypeParagraph
Selection.TypeParagraph
Next B
Selection.InsertBreak Type:=wdColumnBreak
End Sub
The key here is to print the .Range.Text property of each bookmark. Of course, if a bookmark doesn't contain a range of text (perhaps it marks a singular location in a document), then nothing will print for that particular bookmark.
There are also some third-party utilities that may be helpful in managing your bookmarks (including printing them out). One such utility is called Word uTIlities, and you can find it here:
http://insight.trueinsight.za.com/word/word-utilities
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2012-10-27 04:38:02
Dr. Bartolo
When I downloaded the utilities program referred to here Norton Internet Security intercepted it and deleted it as unsafe to run. I have forwarded that file to Symantec (without installing the file, which for now remains quarantined by NIS).
Can anyone say for certain whether NIS has got this wrong or not?
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