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Bookmarks.ShowHidden Property

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Word Developer Reference

True if hidden bookmarks are included in the Bookmarks collection. Read/write Boolean.

Syntax

expression.ShowHidden

expression   An expression that returns a Bookmarks collection object.

Remarks

The ShowHidden property also controls whether hidden bookmarks are listed in the Bookmark dialog box (Insert menu). Hidden bookmarks are automatically inserted when cross-references are inserted into the document.

Example

This example displays the Bookmark dialog box with both visible and hidden bookmarks listed.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.ShowHidden = True
Dialogs(wdDialogInsertBookmark).Show

This example displays the name of each hidden bookmark in the document. Hidden bookmarks in a Word document begin with an underscore ( _ ).

Visual Basic for Applications 
  ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.ShowHidden = True
For Each aBookmark In ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
    If Left(aBookmark.Name, 1) = "_" Then MsgBox aBookmark.Name
Next aBookmark

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