I'm trying to loop through all of the word documents that I currently have open, check the filename and pass the document to a function if the document name matches certain criteria. This is the code I currently have:
Dim doc As word.Document
For Each doc In word.Documents
If doc.Name Like "*scratchpad*" Then
Call ModifyScratchpad(doc)
End If
Next
This seems to work well some of the time but if I close the docs and reopen them, then run the sub again, I'll get an error at line 2:
"The remote server machine does not exist or is unavailable."
I'm clearly doing something wrong to loop through open Word docs but not sure what.
Does anyone have an idea of how to loop through all open Word docs and avoid this error?
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I have a macro which should open, edit and copy the contents of read-only documents into a new document, then closes the original ones without saving. On my computer I get a runtime error 6124: "You are not allowed to edit this selection because it is protected."
When I open the document through VBA it says I am restricted with view only, however when I open it manually I get the notification that the author would like me to open it read only, and I can refuse.
The weird thing is I sent the macro to my colleague to test it, and the same code on the same files can do the editing for them.
Is there a setting I am not aware of that allows this to happen?
Is there a way to get VBA to open the read-only document with editing access?
I have tried to change the document attribute through runtime script, but it did not work:
Dim fso, doc As Object
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set doc = fso.GetFile("path")
doc.Attributes = 0
Documents.Open("path")
End Sub
Consider VBA for PowerPoint -
Is this a valid Presentations function call?
Presentations(".\directory\ppname.ppt")
Note that this will be called from within a PowerPoint presentation VBA, to open another one in a sub-directory.
The Microsoft Presentations examples (and most others) are not specific about the filename forms accepted, e.g. those using the ".", "..", "\" directives recognized in DOS scripts.
This seems to work with Powerpoint 2007.
As described in the comment, it takes a block of text (the TextRange), the starting position and length of file reference, also a LinkAddr. LinkAddr is essentially a DOS-style file reference, like "..\folder\ppfile.ppt".
The intention here is to launch another PowerPoint tool by invoking its show.ppt or show.ppsm file name. The file name can refer to some other directory using MSDOS file name stuff. I don't know whether it can span different machine platforms, but it seems to work within one Windows 10 system.
My difficulty in getting this to work was some full-path links to images, e.g. something like C:\blah\blah\image.jpg, in the Visual Basic code. PowerPoint didn't like these, instead asked about enabling macros, and just hung up when one of my file links were to be executed. By getting rid of the "macro" complaints, this suddenly started working.
Or maybe some bugs have been fixed in recent repairs to my 2007 PowerPoint tools??
Go figure...
Sub InsertLink(ByRef Trange As TextRange, fpos As Long, msglen As Long, LinkAddr As String)
' Insert an HTML link into the selected TextFrame.
' get the character range
Dim Hrange As TextRange
Set Hrange = Trange.Characters(Start:=fpos, length:=msglen)
' make it an HTML link
With Hrange.ActionSettings(ppMouseClick)
.Action = ppActionHyperlink
.Hyperlink.Address = LinkAddr
End With
End Sub
I am new to the VBA coding. I am currently making a ms access db for printing official letters using mail merge. I have already make that happen. Now I want to make a button that saves the current record to db and simultaneously print to word file using the mail merge option.
It will be really helpful for me if you solve this problem.
Thanks in Advance.
I have a word document that uses mail merge feature and gets its information from the access db. When I use this code it does not open the word document with the current information. It opens the word document with the last saved information.
If I open the word document on its own, from the task bar, it asks if I want to run the SQL and I click yes and everything operates normally. I want to click a button from within access to accomplish this same task to open the contract.
here is the code if it can help:-
Private Sub Command205_Click()
Dim LWordDoc As String
Dim oApp As Object
'Path to the word document
LWordDoc = "C:\Users\.....k Up\01- Proposal\contract.docx"
If Dir(LWordDoc) = "" Then
MsgBox "Document not found."
Else
'Create an instance of MS Word
Set oApp = CreateObject(Class:="Word.Application")
oApp.Visible = True
'Open the Document
oApp.Documents.Open FileName:=LWordDoc
End If
End Sub
I have come across a strange error and am looking for some insights.
Scenario:
A powerpoint file on a shared drive is opened by user A. User B now wants to open the same file, and is presented with a "open as read only?" dialog. User clicks "OK".
The file is opened, and an add-in runs (whenever a file is opened) to check for certain tags on slides, indicating presence of confidential material. This causes an error in the following function:
Function taggedSlide(tagName As String)
' find the slide which is tagged with tagName
Dim oSl As Slide
Set oSl = Nothing
For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.Slides
If Len(oSl.Tags(tagName)) > 0 Then <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< this is the line that causes error
Set taggedSlide = oSl
Exit Function
End If
Next oSl
Set taggedSlide = Nothing
End Function
The function ostensibly loops over all slides in the presentation, looks for a tag called tagName, and returns the slide (or Nothing). It looks like this only involves "read" operations, but the code throws an error at the indicated line.
To make things more interesting, the behavior is different if I simply mark a file as "read only", save it, and open it. The difference seems to be that I can modify the file in that case - I just can't save it. But this file cannot be edited at all, even if I don't save it. And the above "read" operation is treated as a "modification"...
I have the following questions:
Is there a document property that I can read in VBA to tell me this is a "cannot modify" file? I am looking for something akin to ActivePresentation.ReadOnly, but that is set for a "read only" file, and this is different.
Why does the line If Len(oSl.Tags(tagName)) > 0 Then get treated as a "modifying file" operation?
It was difficult to reproduce this error, because I really needed to have two users open the same file (saving the file as read-only was not enough) to make it happen. Looking forward to your insights / comments / answers!
I have a VBA script used to process Word documents. The first thing the program does is to create an index of the documents in a defined set of folders. It then goes through the list processing each of the indexed documents.
The problem I am having is that it will sometimes decide that a particular document cannot be found, even though it previously indexed the document and a quick spot check shows the document to be in the correct place.
Can anyone shed some light on why VBA should display this behaviour?
The script is using the Dir$ function to index the files, and the Documents.Open function to open each word document for processing.
Sample code:
ChangeFileOpenDirectory (folderName)
inputFileName = Dir$(folderName & "*.doc")
Do While inputFileName <> ""
... call various functions here ...
inputFileName = Dir$
Loop
One of the functions called in the block has the following line:
Set currentDoc = Documents.Open(fileName:=docFileName, AddToRecentFiles:=False, Visible:=False)
This is the point at which the code is failing.
One of the most annoying things I have found is that recent files links are returned as the files themselves with Dir. You can use the FileSystemObject to check the file type.
I copy/paste your code and it works correctly.
However, it leaves all the files open (and hidden), and when you run it in another directory, additional files are opened and added to the open projects (take a look in the VBA editor).
My only guess is that after a while you're hitting the maximum allowable number of open files.
Try adding
currentdoc.Close
just before
inputFileName = Dir$
A few reasons, some duplicated from other answers:
If the path+ filename is long enough ... (you already answered in a comment)
If you are writing new files to same directory, Dir$ may get corrupted (happened to me)
If you have filenames with non-std chars (ex. "#")
Files locked by other processes
Files deleted while the macro is running
You may also try this code ...
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If Not fso.FileExists(file) Then ....
First enable the Microsoft Scripting reference in the VBE