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POWord macro, storing the current selection (VBA)
 

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    <p>I have a Word document that contains about 4000 form fields which I have to export afterwards to a database. The matter is that none of the 4000 fields have an information in the "Bookmark" field, thus I cannot get the information stored in them.</p> <p>I'm trying to create a macro to help the process of writing the bookmark (FormField.Name) but cannot manage to do it right. The matter is that I want to change the names of the FormFields contained in the user's selection, and only them. I've managed to come to this solution:</p> <pre><code>Sub Macro2() Dim myFile As String Dim fnum As Integer Dim sFileText As String Dim currentField As FormField myFile = "c:\testMacro.txt" fnum = FreeFile() Open myFile For Input As fnum For Each currentField In Selection.FormFields Input #fnum, sFileText With currentField .StatusText = sFileText .OwnStatus = True End With currentField.Select Application.WordBasic.FormFieldOptions Name:=sFileText Next currentField End Sub </code></pre> <p>But it doesn't work, because the Selection object is changed in the For Each loop and afterwards it only contains the first FormField of the selection.</p> <p>So here is my question, is there a way to save the current selection and load it back after having changed it.</p> <p>I've tried :</p> <pre><code>Dim mySelection as Selection Set mySelection = Selection </code></pre> <p>But if I change the Selection, the variable mySelection changes as well (which is quite normal...) and I didn't find any way to clone the object.</p> <p>Has someone an idea on how to do this?</p> <p>Thanks</p>
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