Add hyperlink into Word Content Control with VBA

Question

I have a Word 2010 template. When used, a form is presented to the user and they are prompted to enter a string in a textbox named BugNumTextBox . Upon command, I wish to construct a URL, create a hyperlink, and insert that into the document.

The desired insertion point (anchor) is a Rich Text Content Control with a tag name of "foo". For the address parameter I have attempted:

1) To specify the range of the content control
2) To specify the range of a bookmark (named BugNum) that I created inside of the content control.

Neither have worked, resulting in run-time errors.
Can anyone suggest a method to achieve this?
Below is a non-working example of method 2 above.

ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=.Bookmark("BugNum").Range, Address:= _
"http://bugs.fubar.net/show_bug.cgi?id=" & BugNumTextBox, _
SubAddress:="", ScreenTip:="", TextToDisplay:=""

Thank you much.

Answer 1

Why don't you access the ContentControls Object Collection instead.
Something like:

Dim ccRtxt As ContentControl

Set ccRtxt = ActiveDocument.ContentControls(1)
ccRtxt.Range.Hyperlinks.Add ccRtxt.Range, _
    "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26538906/" & _
    "add-hyperlink-into-word-content-control-with-vba"

Above will work on the scenario you describe where you only have 1 ContentControl .
If you have many such objects, you can do this:

Dim ccRtxt As ContentControl

For Each ccRtxt In ActiveDocument.ContentControls
    If ccRtxt.Tag = "foo" Then
        ccRtxt.Range.Hyperlinks.Add ccRtxt.Range, _
            "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26538906/" & _
            "add-hyperlink-into-word-content-control-with-vba"
    End If
Next

This adds this question as hyperlink address in your Rich Text Content Control .
You can adjust the address property to suit your needs. HTH.