ShowHidden Property

Microsoft Word Visual Basic

expression.ShowHidden

expression    Required. An expression that returns a Bookmarks collection object.

Remarks

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.

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 ( _ ).

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