Microsoft KB Archive/72870

{| = POKE Example Uses Invalid Bookmark Name in Excel =
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Last reviewed: November 3, 1994

Article ID: Q72870

SUMMARY
The POKE example and description of the example on page 184 of the &quot;Microsoft Excel Function Reference&quot; for version 3.0 describe a bookmark named COMM.BAK.

This is incorrect. Help for Word for Windows states

A bookmark name can contain up to 20 characters and must contain only letters, digits, and underscores. You must modify the bookmark name before the example will work correctly. &quot;COMM_BAK&quot;, &quot;COMM&quot;, and &quot;COMMBAK&quot; ARE all valid bookmark names. This documentation error does not occur in Excel version 4.0.