Opening a word help document to a specific location from .NET appliaction

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I have a search screen with a radio button control with a few choices and a Word help document with help for each of those choices but only one help icon on the screen.

So, when the user selects one of these choices and then clicks the help icon, a word help document opens but they have to scroll through the document until they get to the section that applies to their choice.

The question is; based on the radio button selected, can I open the help document to the specific section that covers that choice?

Regards,
Red.

UPDATE:
If anyone is interested;
I did find something that I think could be a starting point to achieve what I originally posted at this link:

http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_net_open_word_bookmark.html

Red.

What I have tried:

Word offers the ability to insert bookmarks at specific locations in a document but I cannot figure out how to use that to my advantage, or if it's even possible.

Internet searching so far has not given worthy results but I'm still looking.

Posted 11-Apr-17 5:43am

Redvan

Updated 17-Apr-17 5:22am

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ZurdoDev 11-Apr-17 11:56am

As far as I know, there still is no way to do this without using Macros. The answer for years has been to save it as a webpage. I think that is still the answer.

Redvan 11-Apr-17 11:57am

That's what I thought and heard but wanted to be sure.
Thank youi RyanDev.

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Ramza360 · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-17T05:22:00

You need to add the bookmarks to the word doc directly to be able to search and find the section.

Some sample code to find and scroll to the bookmark in c#, if need VBA you'll have to port.

C#

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application wApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application();

wApp.Visible = true;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word._Document doc = wApp.Documents.Open("yourhelpdocpath");

if (null != doc) {
    if (doc.Bookmarks.Exists("yourRadioButtonBookmarkSelection")){
         Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Bookmark mark = doc.Bookmarks["yourRadioButtonBookmarkSelection"];
         Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Range rng = mark.Range;
         wApp.ActiveWindow.ScrollIntoView(rng);
    }
}

Tested using local word document, though I believe it should work through server call long as you can definitely get the document.