MS Word Reports-how to use bookmarks

I am using the labview report writing tools to produce an MS Word report. I have produced several headings, information strings, tables etc. I need to use "Word Insert Object.vi" to place certain objects such as excel charts at certain places in the word report. This VI uses bookmarks in word to point at the right locations (the VI also seems incredibly limited in that it provides only a file reference as a source to obtain the object from - but no way of referring to which object in the file?? Does this mean I have to go to all the trouble to separate out my source objects to each reside in their own exclusive word doc? The documentation for "Word Insert Object" suggests you can extract objects from excel, but doesnt say how to identify the objects. Can anyone enlighten me?
The only way I can see to set up the bookmarks in the word doc to send my objects to is to setup a template doc with the bookmarks and pagebreaks in place as a starting point before I use the labview report generation vis to place everything else. The objects insert quite happily at the required bookmarks (since the vi has an input which specifies the bookmark to use), but now everything else that used to form my title page, tables, text etc are pushed to the end of the template document (i.e. after all of the bookmarks and pagebreaks structured into my template). None of the other report generation vis (insert tables, text etc) seem to have any ability to point at bookmark locations.
I can only hope for 2 possibilities here:
1) that there is a way to make the non-bookmark capable vis jump to a certain location in the document (by forcing the cursor there somehow)
2) that there is a way to programatically place bookmarks in the document as I write the various parts of it from labview, to which I can then insert objects at the end of the process.
Can anyone enlighten me about the approach to use here?
thanks
Fred

Hi Fred,
Well to answer both of the numerated questions, I can think of two ways that would most likely fix your problem.
1) Find the activeX call that can place bookmarks or move the cursor in your word document.
2) Make a macro that can do the same thing.
Has anyone in the community ever attempted this?
Brian K.

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