DescTools (version 0.99.54)

WrdBookmark: Some Functions to Handle MS-Word Bookmarks

Description

Accessing bookmarks by name is only possible by browsing the bookmark names. WrdBookmark returns a handle to a bookmark by taking its name as argument. WrdInsertBookmark, WrdDeleteBookmark inserts/deletes a bookmark in a Word document. WrdGotoBookmark allows to place the cursor on the bookmark and WrdUpdateBookmark replaces the content within the range of the bookmark in a Word document with the given text.

Usage

WrdBookmark(name, wrd = DescToolsOptions("lastWord"))
WrdInsertBookmark(name, wrd = DescToolsOptions("lastWord"))
WrdDeleteBookmark(name, wrd = DescToolsOptions("lastWord"))
WrdGoto(name, what = wdConst$wdGoToBookmark, wrd = DescToolsOptions("lastWord"))
WrdUpdateBookmark(name, text, what = wdConst$wdGoToBookmark,
                  wrd = DescToolsOptions("lastWord"))

Arguments

name

the name of the bookmark.

text

the text of the bookmark.

what

a word constant, defining the type of object to be used to place the cursor.

wrd

the pointer to a word instance. Can be a new one, created by GetNewWrd() or an existing one, created by GetCurrWrd(). Default is the last created pointer stored in DescToolsOptions("lastWord").

Author

Andri Signorell <[e-mail]>

Details

Bookmarks are useful to build structured documents, which can be updated later.

See Also

WrdFont, WrdPlot, GetNewWrd, GetCurrWrd

Examples

if (FALSE)  # we can't get this through the CRAN test - run it with copy/paste to console
wrd <- GetNewWrd()
WrdText("a)\n\n\nb)", fontname=WrdGetFont()$name, fontsize=WrdGetFont()$size)
WrdInsertBookmark("chap_b")
WrdText("\n\n\nc)\n\n\n", fontname=WrdGetFont()$name, fontsize=WrdGetFont()$size)

WrdGoto("chap_b")
WrdUpdateBookmark("chap_b", "Goto chapter B and set text")

WrdInsertBookmark("mybookmark")
ToWrd("A longer text\n\n\n")

# Now returning the bookmark
bm <- WrdBookmark("mybookmark")

# get the automatically created name of the bookmark
bm$name()