I've written some Python code for my thesis, and wish to add this to my report in Word. I have to hand it in in pdf format. But when I convert the word document, the code cannot be copy pasted and used again, as the tabs are replaced by a single space.
Is there any solution for this?
found the answer: replace all spaces by _ , and possibly make them invisible (white).
If you want to copy paste and use the code, just replace all _ by spaces again.
Solved!
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I need to paste 6000 HTML strings into Word as formatted using VBA. I can do this if I insert an HTML file, but would rather do this with passing a string.
This is the sample HTML I'm using:
<html><body>normal <b>bold</b><br></body></html>
I can get this to work:
Selection.InsertFile FileName:="html test file.htm"
Result: normal bold (this is what I want).
But not this (with the above HTML in the clipboard):
ActiveDocument.Range.PasteSpecial ,,,,WdPasteDataType.wdPasteHTML
With the later, I get error 5342 "the specified data type is unavailable".
In a perfect world, I can just pass a string.
In an imperfect world, I can copy the HTML to the clipboard, then copy the clipboard into Word.
In a sucky world, I can write the HTML to a text file, then insert that file into Word (repeat 6000 times).
Even though this is a one off project, I'd rather learn the efficient way to do this, so any help would be appreciated.
In case it's not clear, this is raw HTML from a database, not copying an already formatted page.
Thanks in advance.
The code posted by GMCB (accepted answer) here will do what you want, based on some short testing:
Injecting RTF code in the Clipboard to paste into MS Word as RTF text via a VBA macro
The main focus of that post is putting RTF-format text into the clipboard, but it also covers populating HTML-format.
I want to keep a record of code I am working on by saving it in MicroSoft Office OneNote. When I copy and paste the code, all the indentations are gone.
def primeGenerator(primeList1, arr):
for i in range(2, len(arr)):
if arr[i]==0:
primeList1.append(i)
for j in range(i**2, len(arr), i):
arr[j] = 1
Code shown above becomes like this
def primeGenerator(primeList1, arr):
for i in range(2, len(arr)):
if arr[i]==0:
primeList1.append(i)
for j in range(i**2, len(arr), i):
arr[j] = 1
I tried the solutions I found on the internet like
convert indentations to tabs in vscode
copy the code first in MS Word then in OneNote.
It isn't supported natively, however there are open source workarounds such as:
https://github.com/elvirbrk/NoteHighlight2016
There is a OneNote Settings/Options/Paste Options/
Make sure that is set to Keep Source Formatting.
My pastes into OneNote retain indentation and syntax highlighting (I have Editor: Copy with Syntax Highlighting enabled).
I would advise against using Keep Source Formatting in OneNote under Settings. I just notice that when Copying from Visual Studio Code into OneNote, OneNote replaces all space charactes (0x20) with NonBreak Space (0xA0).
To recreate the problem, copy something from VSC, and paste it here. Then Paste it into OneNote. Then copy from OneNote, and paste it back in that same link. You will see that all the spaces (0x20) has been turn into NonBreak Space (0xA0), which Visual Studio Code does not like (CSS, JS, etc).
Instead use Keep Text Only
On Windows
in VS Code change the settings Editor: Insert Spaces to checked.
before copying JS code from VS Code to OneNote find replace using
regex:
Find: \n\n
replace: \n\n\n
replace all.
Cut and paste into OneNote.
Seems to be a bug in the copy paste of LF / CRLF defined text to OneNote.
I'm writing VBA codes to read spreadsheet contents and write to a TXT file.
Some of the cells has multi-line text. They are displayed as multi-line in the spreadsheet.
However, when the VBA code read the cell and write to the TXT file, they appear on the same line. This also happens when I copy the cell and past it into Notepad.
For example in spreadsheet, cell A1 appears as:
Text1
Text2
Text3
But in TXT file, it appears as: Text1Text2Text3.
So I guess CHAR(10) in Excel is not equivalent to vbNewLine in VBA? What do I need to do to get the line breaks into TXT file? Thank you!
Do a Replace(YourCellValue, vbLf, vbCrLf) to get line breaks that works in Windows.
I had the same problem, and resolved it by changing my column to word wrap. Please be gentle if this is a silly solution - this is my first answer on the forum. :-)
I have a 20-page word document punctuated with descriptive notes throughout, like this:
3 Input Data Requirements
Some requirement text.
NOTE: This is a descriptive note about the requirement, which is the paragraph that I would like to use find-and-replace or a VBA script to select automatically and change the formatting to italicized. The notes invariably end in a carriage-return: ¶.
If it was just a text document, not MS-Word, I would just use a regex in a code editor like sublime to wrap it with <I>...</I> or something along those lines.
Preferably, is there a way to do this in Word's "advanced" find-and-replace feature? Or if not, what's the best way to do it in VBA?
I've tried using a search string like this in find-and-replace: NOTE: *[a-z0-9,. A-Z)(-]{1,255}^l but the line-break part doesn't seem to work, and the 255 char max isn't enough for many of the paragraphs.
EDIT: Another slightly important detail: The doc is automatically generated from another piece of software as a .RTF, which I promptly converted to .docx.
Attempt #2: Use Notepad++ to find and replace using regex. Remove quotes.
Find: "( NOTE: .*?)\r"
Replace with: " \i \1 \i0 \r "
//OLD
Sure is. No VBA or fancy tricks needed.
CTRL + H to bring up the replace dialog.
Click "More".
Select "Font" in the drop down menu called "Format".
Click italics.
Enter find and replace text as the same thing. Make sure you set this up right so that you don't accidentally replace substrings (e.g. goal to replace all " test " with " nice ", testing -> niceing).
Should work. If you need to alter entire paragraphs, consistently, then you probably should have used the styles on those paragraphs to begin with. That way, you can change all of them at once by updating the style itself.
You can use Advance Find, yes. Find Next and then Replace makes the selection Italic.
I have a large book written in Microsoft Word and want to create a macro that will find all text using a predefined style and convert that text to an inline image. This text will be in Arabic and generally no longer than 4-5 lines. Is this possible?
UPDATE: Here's an example to show what I'm referring to:
I want to replace that entire line in Arabic with an image (as if I cropped this attached image to only include the Arabic and then replaced the line in Arabic with the image).
The reason I want a macro or script to do this is because there are hundreds of such lines and updating them one by one is cumbersome plus that will make modifications difficult later on.
UPDATE2: I found an interesting option here: http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/31344-Convert-Text-to-an-Image-of-Text-in-VBA-(Office-2000-Sr1a)
It looks like you can cut a piece of text and then "Paste Special" as an image. So if there's a way to automate that that might work.
This is not an answer although I hope it will grow into a community answer. At the moment it is an exploration of what is required to solve the problem.
I know from the discussion when this question was posted on Super User that Abdullah wishes to publish his book on Kindle. So the question is really about how to get a document in English and Arabic ready for publication as an e-Book.
The Kindle does not support Arabic. The number of languages it does support is slowly increasing but there is no evidence I can find that Amazon has plans to add Arabic in the foreseeable future.
The format behind an Amazon e-Book is a cut down version of HTML. If a Word document containing Arabic letters is exported to HTML, the Arabic letters are included as character entities; for example: “ﭐ &#amp;64337; ﭒ ﭓ”. Importing the original Word or the HTML version to Kindle, results in the leading bits being discarded so these characters are displayed as P, Q, R and S instead of “ﭐ ﭑ ﭒ ﭓ (Alef Wasla isolated form, Alef Wasla final form, Beeh Wasla isolated form and Beeh Wasla final form).
I have tried Abdullah’s idea of saving some Arabic letters in a PNG file and creating an HTML file containing <p> … </p> <img src= “Arabic.png” > <p> … </p>. The appearance of this file on my Kindle 2 is perfectly acceptable so this has the potential to be a solution. The question is: how can the necessary conversions be performed?
We need to extract each Arabic string from either the Word document or its HTML equivalent and import it into a program that can convert them to PNG files.
The only way that I know of automating this would be to copy each string to a slide within PowerPoint. With PowerPoint’s SaveAs option it is possible to save each slide as a separate PNG file. The slides are named: SLIDE1.PNG, SLIDE2.PNG, SLIDE3.PNG and so on in sequence which would allow a macro to relate the results to the original strings. It would then be possible to replace the Arabic strings in the HTML file with the image elements. None of this would be too difficult to automate but there is a problem with the slides all being the size of the PowerPoint page. The page could be made smallish but what we need is for each slide to be cropped to just bigger than that slide’s text. I cannot think of any way of automating this cropping.
Does anyone have a better approach than converting each Arabic phrase to a PNG file?
I have been looking for PNG editors with some sort of command line interface but can find nothing that would be easier than using PowerPoint. Does anyone know of an alternative to PowerPoint?
Does anyone have any suggestions for automating the cropping of each image? When a string is placed in a PowerPoint slide it is possible to set its width to, say, 6.5cm (which looks good on my Kindle) and get the height determined by PowerPoint. This could be saved for later use if anyone knows how to use it.
Implementing solution
Pending any suggestions for improving the approach described above, the following outlines how I would implement it.
I would not attempt to process the Word document. I would save it as a Web Page, Filtered HTML file, which is a required step on the way to creating a Kindle eBook, and process that.
Within the HTML file created from my test document, the Arabic phrase comes out as:
<p class="MsoNormal"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span dir="RTL"
style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Arial">
ﭐﭑﭒﭓﭔﭕ
ﭖﭗﺁﺂﻼﻻ
ﻺﻹﻞﻊﻋﻌ
</span><span style="font-size:24.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p>
I assume Abdullah's document will result in something similar. Note 1: the above is a random collection of Arabic letters. Note 2: they are held left-to-right in reading sequence even though, when displayed or printed, they are read right-to-left.
The whole of this block will have to be replaced with something like:
<br><imc src="xxxx.png"><br>
where the file xxxx.png holds an image of the Arabic text.
The file names, such as xxxx.png, could be systematic (A001.png, A002.png, ...) but I would have thought that transliterating the first ten or twenty characters of the phrase from the Arabic to English alphabets and using the result, with a numeric suffix, as the file name would be more convenient.
I would hold the records necessary to manage the process in an Excel worksheet. I would place the VBA code in the same workbook.
The steps in the conversion process that I envisage are:
VBA macro to extract Arabic strings from latest HTML file and add new strings to the Excel worksheet. (More about the Excel worksheet later.)
VBA macro to create PowerPoint file, with one slide per new string, and use SaveAs in PNG format to create one PNG file per slide before discarding the PowerPoint file.
Human to crop each PNG file. (There appears to be no way of automating the cropping so this task will be minimised by use of data in the Excel worksheet.)
VBA macro to rename each slide from SLIDEnnn.PNG to its permanent name and to record the permanent name in the Excel worksheet.
VBA macro to update the latest HTML file by replacing the block containing the Arabic phrase with the appropriate HTML IMG element.
The Excel worksheet needs two columns: Arabic phrase and PNG file name. If there is any risk of the worksheet being sorted between steps 2 and 4, we may need a sequence number as well.
Macro 1 will extract an Arabic phrase from the HTML file, look down the list in the worksheet for this phrase and add the phrase at the bottom if it is not already present.
Macro 2 will look for phrases in the worksheet that do not have a PNG file name. These new phrases are the ones to be written to the PowerPoint presentation. That is, a phrase only goes into this process once.
Task 3, cropping each PNG file, will be a pain. All I can say is that it will only be once per phrase.
Macro 4 will assume that the SLIDE001.PNG, SLIDE002.PNG, … are in the sequence of phrases without PNG files in the worksheet. If this might not be true (because the worksheet has been sorted) we will either need a sequence number or to retain the PowerPoint file. The macro will assign a unique name to each new phrase, record this name in the worksheet and rename the PNG file.
Macro 5 creates a new copy of the latest HTML file using the contents of the worksheet to determine which phrase to replace with which PNG file.
This process is not ideal but it will achieve the desired result and has no obvious complications. Any suggestions for improving it?
Before you begin these instructions, press record in the Microsoft Word macro editor, so you can see what the VBA code is.
I'm wondering if this will be easier if you convert the docx file to .rtf (rich text format) and replace that line with an image? Go to File > Save As.. > name it "old.rtf", then replace the line with an image and Save As.. again and name it "new.rtf" and then download Beyond Compare or your favorite diff program to see what happened. It should be easy to do this pro-grammatically if you choose to. I think working in text would be easier than Microsoft's binary format unless you can find a good library to modify their doc or docx formats.
Sub CopySelPasteAsPicture()
' Take a picture of a selection and paste it at the
' document end
With Selection
.CopyAsPicture
End With
ActiveDocument.Content.Select
With Selection
.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd
.TypeParagraph
.TypeParagraph
.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteMetafilePicture
End With
End Sub