Copy Named Range from Excel to Word Bookmark, Preserving Bookmarks? (VBA)

[spudweb]

I have found a way to copy the values from each of the Excel named ranges to bookmarks with the same name in Word using the following piece of code:

'Loop through names in the activeworkbook
For Each xlName In wb.Names
'if xlName's name exists in the document then put the value at the bookmark
If MyDoc.Bookmarks.Exists(xlName.Name) Then
MyDoc.Bookmarks(xlName.Name).Range.Text = Range(xlName.Value)
End If
Next xlName​

However, this removes the existing bookmarks in Word. Is there a way to either preserve the bookmarks or to recreate the bookmarks using the named ranges in Excel? I need to preserve the bookmarks because they are referred to elsewhere in the document.

Thanks!