How do I to make a desktop Word (2003 shortcut to a specific bookm

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I used to be able to make a desktop shortcut to Word that would let me open a
certain document to a specific bookmark. Either I've forgotton the magic
formula or this version of Word does not support doing this. Can anyone
help???
 
Temporary fix.

Save the document to your desktop. Set up a MACRO that will take you to a
certain point when the document is opened. If the document doesn't open to
the right point. set up a MaACRO that you run right after you open the
document.
 
Select the point in the document you want to open at and copy it.
Right click somewhere on your desktop and select Paste Shortcut
 
Thanks to Tony and Armadillow ... neither of these provides the fix I need.
I'm looking for a text string to put into the "Target" or "Start in" box in
'properties' that will open Word and the document and automatically take me
to the latest location of a particular bookmark within that document.
 
Thanks to Tony and Armadillow ... neither of these provides the fix I need.
I'm looking for a text string to put into the "Target" or "Start in" box in
'properties' that will open Word and the document and automatically take me
to the latest location of a particular bookmark within that document.
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I don't know what you think you remember, but there isn't anything
like that and -- at least as far back as Word 2.0c -- never was. All
the startup switches for Word are listed at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=210565, and none of them take you
to a specified bookmark. The closest you'll get with a command line is
if the bookmark also happens to the be last location you edited in the
document, and you use the command-line switch /mGoBack in the
shortcut (in which case the Target command must also include the full
path and name of WinWord.exe).

Maybe you're thinking of how a Word document can be opened from a link
in an HTML file. If you save this in a .htm file:

<html>
<body>
<a href="C:\someDoc.doc#startHere">click me</a>
</body>
</html>

and open the .htm file in a browser, the link says "click me". Click
the link, and if the document contains a startHere bookmark, the file
will open there. You can do the same with a hyperlink in one Word
document opening another Word document. Just not with a desktop
shortcut.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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