I am trying to accept all changes in a selection, in Word 2013.
I used the macro recorder and it generated the following code (it can also be found at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/word.revisions.acceptall)
Selection.Range.Revisions.AcceptAll
However, it will not work unless I physically select each letter
But if I use the built in buttons in the 'Changes' group within the 'Review' tab, I don't have to physically select the entire letter. I just need to select any part of the change and it will accept the change.
Why does the macro version not perform like the UI option?
That is odd behavior. The UI must be doing something like the below, but whoever built the macro recorder missed it.
Public Sub AcceptSelection()
Dim rev As Revision
For Each rev In Selection.Range.Revisions
rev.Accept
Next rev
End Sub
That code will accept any revisions in the selection, even partial ones.
Related
I often have to check Word documents with multiple rounds of editing. To make things easier, I would like to be able to run a macro that prompts me to input a date and then any tracking before this date would be hidden, leaving only track changes made on or after the inputted date. Ideally, hitting the macro again would toggle the hidden track changes back to being shown.
I don't have an in-progress code as such, but do have two separate macros, each doing related things. The first is a simple toggle to hide and show insertions and deletions:
Sub ShowHideMarkup()
ActiveWindow.View.ShowInsertionsAndDeletions = Not _
ActiveWindow.View.ShowInsertionsAndDeletions
ActiveWindow.View.ShowFormatChanges = Not _
ActiveWindow.View.ShowFormatChanges
End Sub
And the second is one I've seen posted a few times online (created by Graham Mayor) - this one prompts for a date and then accepts earlier revisions:
Sub AcceptTrackingBeforeGivenDate()
Dim oRev As Revision
Dim oKeepDate As Date
Dim strRsp As String
While Not IsDate(strRsp)
strRsp = InputBox("Enter earliest date to keep", _
"Accept Changes Before Date", _
"1 Jan 2021")
If Len(strRsp) = 0 Then Exit Sub
Wend
oKeepDate = CDate(strRsp)
For Each oRev In ActiveDocument.Revisions
If oRev.Date < oKeepDate Then
oRev.Accept
End If
Next oRev
End Sub
I'm really not sure how to combine the two. Could anyone point me in the right direction?
Many thanks in advance!
Luke
Your two macros cannot be combined to do as you want. The:
first simply toggles the track-changes view on/off for all tracked changes.
second simply accepts all changes before a specified date, meaning they no longer exist in the document and, unless all the 'accepts' are undone or discarded (by not saving the document), provides no means of 'unhiding' those changes.
Word has no capacity to display some tracked changes and hide others based on the date.
The kludgy workaround I had in mind is equivalent to what the second macro does - without saving the modified document.
Do note that, even without using Track Changes, Word allows you to use its document comparison feature to compare two versions of the same document (e.g. the current version and a version in your backups). You could do the same thing by saving daily/weekly versions of the documents (different filenames, of course), to compare any two versions against each other.
How can I change the Heading Number with VBA code?
For example, "1.1 Computer system"
I'd like to change "1.1" to "1.2".
I can read it with:
Selection.Paragraphs(1).Range.ListFormat.ListString
I can't find a way to change it.
Basic Function Test
1.1. LED Function Test Purpose: To make sure all the LED Functions are working as the Product Specification Resource Requirements:
The context is shown above. Sometimes, I copy from another document. The pasted heading number is not correct.
I tried to record the macro but the recorded macro is empty.
To force Heading 2 to start the numbering from 1.2, all you need is:
ActiveDocument.Styles(wdStyleHeading2).ListTemplate.ListLevels(2).StartAt = 2
Your update shows you're trying to do something quite different, however.
The only reliable way to retain the original numbering when copying/pasting between documents is to either:
convert the source numbering to static text before copying; or
paste the copied content as unformatted text.
Private Sub Document_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
Set table = ActiveDocument.Tables(1)
If Not Intersect(table, Target) Is Nothing Then
Target.AutoFormat ApplyColor: Red
End If
End Sub
I have the following code, but it does not seem to work in VBA Word.
Can anyone help me out?
I suppose that you copied the code from Excel VBA and tried to rebuild it a bit.
There are a few differences between Excel and Word VBA.
Intersect does not exist in Word VBA.
DocumentChange event in Word works differently from what you would expect - It occurs when a new document is created, when an existing document is opened, or when another document is made the active document. (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff822189.aspx)
If you want to make changes in red, you may do the following:
Record the wholeDocument in a static string.
When there is a change - record again in a new string.
Compare the strings and color the differences.
However, this is a bit tough, as far as word does not have Changeevent as we are expecting it (e.g. as in Excel). Thus, you should run the VBA code a few times automatically.
I've been working on an independent project for a client of mine. They wanted to produce a button that, upon the user-click, it would open up a user-form and have a variety of macro-related options to choose from: a drop-down list, checkbox, option select button, etc.
I created a test formula and submitted it to the client; they enjoyed it thoroughly and decided to sent me a file to 'copy & paste' my original code within their excel file.
Problem is; because I'm a tad bit inexperienced with VBA I've run into a problem where once I click the button - the user form doesn't show up.
Below is a Dropbox link of the original file I created and it's original code; as well as the file that I am trying to copy.
Any help would be all welcome and appreciated.
Link to dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l1t37lz8uritrua/AAAdWPGvw0GDZ6hW4SwmbBdRa?dl=0
OriginalProject.xlsm has a form named honor_roll_form which contains 100 lines of code.
CopyOfOriginal.xlsm has a form named UserForm1 which contains no useful code.
I do not believe there is any method of directly copying user forms from one workbook to another. Instead
Within VB Editor of OriginalProject.xlsm, select honor_roll_form.
Click File then Export File and save the form on your desktop or where ever you like.
You will now have two files on your desktop; one with an extension of frm and one with an extension of frx.
Within VB Editor of CopyOfOriginal.xlsm, click File then Import file.
Import honor_roll_form.frm
When I try clicking button "Honor Roll", I get "Method or data member not found" for project1Box. I will investigate after dinner (18:57 here) unless you tell me you already know why I am getting this error.
Extra comments in response to request from OP
It is late here but I have started looking down sub execute_button_Click within the second CopyOfOriginal.xlsm. I will comment on what I see even if it is not directly relevant to the non-execution of the macro.
If you open the VB Editor and look on the left you will see the Project Explorer. Near the top you will see:
Microsoft Excel Objects
Sheet1 (Sheet1)
I have always found this confusing. The first “Sheet1” is Excel’s Id for the worksheet and cannot be changed. The second “Sheet1” is the default name for the worksheet which can be changed. You can write Sheet1.Range("A1") or Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1"). That is: you can reference a worksheet by its Id or its name. You have named a variable of type Worksheet as Sheet1. Using Excel’s names as variable names can lead to bizarre errors so it is important to avoid doing anything like this.
It is better to always use meaningful names. At the moment, you know what Sheet1 means but if you come back to this macro in six or twelve months will you remember. I would use a variable as you have but I would name it WshtCis208 or WshtVBAProg or something similar.
Set ID = Range(Sheet1.Cells(2, 1), Sheet1.Cells(52, 1)) could be written as:
With WshtCis208
Set ID = Range(.Cells(2, 1), .Cells(52, 1))
End With
Using With statements produces faster code and, almost always, code that it easier to read.
“52” is the current bottom row for this table. Will you amend the macro for them every time they add or remove a student? There are several techniques for finding the last row, none of which is perfect in every situation. The technique that is the most convenient most of the time is:
Const ColCis208Id as Long = 1
Const ColCis208MidTermExam as Long = 5
Dim RowCis208Last as Long
RowCis208Last = .Cells(.Rows.Count, ColCis208Id).End(xlUp).Row
At the moment, column 1 is the Id column. It is perhaps unlikely that the Id column will move but it is very likely that some of the others columns will move when some new column is identified as useful. Do you want to scan the code trying to decide which 5s refer to the MidtermExam column when a Project3 column is added?
Constants allow you to name literals that might change. It makes your code easier to read and saves so much pain when a value changes.
.Rows.Count gives the number of rows in a worksheet for the current version of Excel so .Cells(.Rows.Count, ColCis208Id) identifies the bottom cell of column 1. End(xlUp).Row says go up until you hit a cell with a value and returns its row number. It is the VBA equivalent of Ctrl+Up.
The next statement subjectCount = … fails because projectBox does not exist on the form. You have changed the captions but not the names.
As far as I can see the form fails to execute because you have started updating it but have not finished.
I'm trying to do something with a multiple selection. I wanna add some text before every selected paragraph but, when I select multiple discontinuous paragraphs, if I do Selection.Paragraphs.Count I always get "1".
How could I work with all paragraphs apart?
Example:
Paragraph1(Selected first)
Paragraph2
Paragraph3(Selected second)
What I got when I try to add some text at the beginning of these paragraphs:
Paragraph1
Paragraph2
TEXTParagraph3
What I really want to obtain:
TEXTParagraph1
Paragraph2
TEXTParagraph3
I'm working like this:
sub x()
dim p as paragraph
for each p in selection.paragraphs
p.range.insertbefore("TEXT")
next
End sub
Word simply cannot do what you'd like for it to do. Developers have wished for this since multiple selections were introduced in 2003 (I think it was, might have been version 2007). Word's object model simply does not support it.
If this is something you want to provide to the user to make life easier you'll need to give the tool a way to mark the paragraphs so your code can recognize them. You could provide a macro, for example, that assigns an incrementing bookmark name to each selection (the user selects, then runs your macro; repeat for each paragraph). Your code can then address each bookmark and perform the actions. To make this more user friendly you can assign the macro to a keyboard shortcut and/or a button in the Ribbon/QAT and/or the right-click menu.