ShowHidden Property

Applies To

Bookmarks collection object.

Description

True if hidden bookmarks are included in the Bookmarks collection. This property also controls whether hidden bookmarks are listed in the Bookmark dialog box (Insert menu). Read/write Boolean.

Remarks

Hidden bookmarks are automatically inserted when cross-references are inserted into the document.

See Also

Bookmarks property, ShowBookmarks property.

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