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Bookmark name to header

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Hi, I want to write the bookmarks of documents to the Header. If only the first page of the bookmark is perfect, but I condsidered, that the bookmarks appeared all of the pages.

Can I do this any way?

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Hi, ACE-

There is no way to automate this, but if you are looking to do so, you can certainly select the bookmark in the bookmarks pane and Copy its name, then use the Header/Footer tool on the Organize tab and paste that in to fairly quickly add this in.

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Then please consider this a development proposal.
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Hi, ACE-

I can put forth the idea for consideration, but unfortunately as it is possible for there to be multiple bookmarks pointing to a single page (possibly even the exact same location), the odds of seeing this implemented are slim. Attempting to systematically decide which bookmarks to use would be no simple task, and of course adding all of them would cause another slew of issues.

For the reasons above, without a large amount of users requesting this, it is highly likely to be marked as a "stalled" or "rejected" feature shortly after being reviewed.

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Hello guys,

So basically the bookmarks' names should only appear on pages from the page range that correspond to the existing bookmarks' GoTo actions. If we have bookmarks that point to the 1, 3 and 5 pages then the macro will only work on the headers of these pages.
Also, if we have several bookmarks pointing to the same page - we'll take first one from the bookmarks order, starting from top of the tree. For example, if we have a structure like this:

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A - 1
B - 3
C - 1
     D - 4
E - 4
The A, B and D bookmarks will be taken and their names will be placed on the 1, 3 and 4 page as header (if these pages are in the page range).
Or there is another type of behavior that can be used. We can place the bookmarks on the 1, 2, 3 and 4 pages, but the 2 one will have the same name as the 1 in our example - A. So it would result in the A A B D sequence.

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Re: Bookmark name to header

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I agree with the original request. Please add feature so %[Bookmark] remains unchanged, but %[Section] would behave as follows:

If 3 bookmarks existed in a 10 page document named "Bookmark A", "Bookmark B", and "Bookmark C" with the following [go to page actions]:

Bookmark A [Go to Page 1]
Bookmark B [Go to Page 5]
Bookmark C [Go to Page 6]

Adding "Page %[Page] %[Section]" to the header would result in:

Page 1 Bookmark A
Page 2 Bookmark A
Page 3 Bookmark A
Page 4 Bookmark A
Page 5 Bookmark B
Page 6 Bookmark C
Page 7 Bookmark C
Page 8 Bookmark C
Page 9 Bookmark C
Page 10 Bookmark C

EDIT: replaced the word "%[Pages]" with "%[Section]" which is intuitive and mirrors usage in the "extract pages" context. Perhaps "SectionBookmark" would be less cryptic.
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Hello, DiveShallow

Thank you for the extrapolation. Between this and Sasha's understanding of the request, It seems likely that this could be implemented at some point in the future. For now though I cannot make any promises of a timeline.

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