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I thought the same thing. I sense the vibe of a former Wordperfect user.
However, the advance feature in Word 2000 seems only to provide the ability
to advance relative to the current position. WP provided the capability to
advance to a specific position on the page--a much more rigorous solution
that Word apparently did not see fit to include.

For better or worse, a text box appears to be the best way to lock something
in a specific place on the page. My problem was that the selection.goto
method of going to a bookmark couldn't find a bookmark in a text box unless
the bookmark had focus in the document. Actually, I found the solution to
this question in a posted response by Greg Maxey to another question. The
trick is to figure out what Word is calling the text box in question; then
rename it something memorable and finally use code to set the focus on the
desired textbox containing the bookmark of interest before trying to place
the inline graphic or text where you want it.

The following code is adapted from Greg's post:

Go to page view of the document and click on the box you're interested in
and then run the following macro. A message box will pop up with Word's ID
number for the text box: eg. TextBox(20). If you run the macro again the new
name will show up in the Message Box.

Sub ShapeID()

MsgBox Selection.ShapeRange.Name
'Or give it your own name
Selection.ShapeRange.Name = "WhateverYouWant"

End Sub

Finally I put the following line of code immediately before the
selection.goto statement for the bookmark inside the TextBox where I want to
insert text (or inline graphic):

'Set the focus on the "WhateverYouWant" textbox
ActiveDocument.Shapes("WhateverYouWant").Select

This seems to work reliably as far as I can tell, however I am intrigued by
this stuff on "Ranges" Greg was referring to in his post to me. I see that a
post I tried to make in response to him somehow got lost. I will repost.

Anyway, thanks for your response, "sparklynic".

"sparklynic" wrote:

> In the past I have used "advance" to exactly position text on a page when I
> needed to fill forms in. Perhaps this could be used instead of text boxes.
> Just a suggestion.
>
> Sparklynic
> ___________________________
>
> RMac wrote:
> >Using Word 2000.
> >
> >I am building a document that I want to use to generate written
> >prescriptions for medicines. In order to control the exact placement of some
> >text and graphics on the page, I would like to use textboxes. However, when
> >I use the following code to do the insertion, the code can't find the
> >bookmarks that are inside a textbox.
> >
>
>