I have several access databases that I export out of either in Excel or PDF. Now I am told that i need to add watermark to all of my exports. However, I am not sure if this is possible or if it can be done. Do you know how I can add a watermark to a an export out of access saved as PDF or Excel file.
I created code to export to excel and email the file. I also created an add-in in excel that inserts the watermark. I dont know how to use together.
This is the code I am using to export to excel and email:
Function ExportDailyPayoffs()
Dim dtemnyr As String
Dim mondt As String
If Weekday(Date) = vbMonday Then 'Check to see if its Monday
dtemnyr = Format(Date - 3, "mmddyy") 'We want to get the file for Friday
Else
dtemnyr = Format(Date - 1, "mmddyy") 'We want to get the file for Friday
End If
DoCmd.SendObject acSendQuery, "A1 Daily Payoffs", acFormatXLSX, "CLSS#xxxx.US", , , "Daily Payoff Report - " & dtemnyr, "Enclosed please find the Daily Payoff Report", True
End Function
I want the word(watermark) CONFIDENTIAL to be in the excel when it gets exported out of access or email to anyone.
Adding a watermark to a .pdf output is straightforward. In design view, a report has a Picture property. That picture can be a watermark, created as a graphic file. The watermark is under all of the text, borders, etc., as if it's part of the paper on which the report is being printed, but to see the watermark properly you need to set the controls' background to transparent. If the watermark is a fairly unsaturated (pastel) color, then the text will be quite readable over the watermark.
Adding a watermark to Excel output is harder. I know of no way to do it directly within Access. I recently needed to do something similar, reformatting Excel output to modify column widths, let selected columns' contents wrap, and so on. I did it by writing an Excel workbook to do the reformatting of the exported workbook. Immediately after I export a workbook, the VBA code which exports it then opens the reformatting workbook, which auto-executes to perform its work and then closes itself. This isn't the right place to explain all of the details, but that's the general approach.
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I'm trying to create a form for a non-technical user in MS Word to capture some text content in MS Word. This word doc consists of several rich text content controls where the user will type in or paste in some formatted data (bold, underlined, links, ...).
Once they get all the content entered into these various content controls I'm trying to make it easy for them to combine them together to paste in a consistent order into some podcast show notes which is in an HTML form.
So basically, I want to take three rich text content controls that have formatted data in them, combine them together into one formatted piece of content, and then copy it to the clipboard so they can then go to this web form, paste it in, and do some minor cleanup. The problem is that whenever I try to combine the RTF content it loses the formatting.
The only way I seem to be able to keep the formatting is if I copy the range object and then paste it. However, this doesn't paste just the formatted text. It pastes the whole rich text content control.
I've tried creating a blank RTF field at the bottom of the Word doc to combine everything in but I just can't figure it out. I wouldn't think this would be rocket science.
Being none of the code I've tried works and keeps the formatting I"m not sure if posting it here will do any good. Here's how I'm getting the value of the text object:
ActiveDocument.SelectContentControlsByTitle("txtShowNotes").Item(1).Range.Text
tried this:
ActiveDocument.SelectContentControlsByTitle("txtShowNotes").Item(1).Range.Copy
ActiveDocument.SelectContentControlsByTitle("txtCombinedContentSection").Item(1).Range.Paste
but this copies the whole RTF and not just the text.
Try something based on:
Sub Demo()
Dim Rng As Range
With ActiveDocument
Set Rng = .SelectContentControlsByTitle("txtCombinedContentSection").Item(1).Range
Rng.FormattedText = _
.SelectContentControlsByTitle("txtShowNotes").Item(1).Range.FormattedText
Rng.InsertAfter vbCr & vbCr
Rng.Characters.Last.FormattedText = _
.SelectContentControlsByTitle("txtShowNotes").Item(2).Range.FormattedText
End With
End Sub
I'm working on creating a PowerPoint template for daily class presentations. In the template I'd like to have a hunk of text that is prominently displayed on the first slide and which repeats at the bottom of the subsequent slides at the bottom in a smaller size. The text will change every day.
The ideas I've had so far:
Use a text field. As far as I can tell, PowerPoint doesn't have anything like a text field that can be dynamically set.
Use a footer - this works and I can modify the master to get the look I want, but I'd really like to be picking up the value of the text from the first page so that edits would be automatically applied and to save the initial step of setting the footer.
Using VBA - I'd be willing to give this a shot, but I've never used VBA and the learning curve seems steep so it would be nice to know if the idea is feasible in VBA.
Can this be done? How would you approach it?
Here's an example of what I'm hoping to be able to do. Ideally the solution would work on both the Mac (2013) and Windows (2016) version of PowerPoint.
You can connect your presentation with an excel file. And running the code in the ppt would pull out the text in the excel file and update the titles instantly.
Create a presentation with a textbox with some temporary text. Put the below code in ppt. save as pptm.
Sub AddMotionPath()
Dim Temp As String
Excel.Application.Workbooks.Open ("D:\Users\Desktop\Book1.xlsx") ' update the path of the excel file
Workbooks("Book1.xlsx").Activate 'activate the file
For p = 1 To 4
Temp = Workbooks("Book1.xlsx").Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("B" & p + 1).Value ' Column B has the titles
ActivePresentation.Slides(p).Shapes(1).TextFrame.TextRange.Text = Temp ' this updates the titles from excel to ppt slide
Next
Excel.Application.Workbooks("Book1.xlsx").Close False 'closes the excel file
End Sub
Let me know if this works for you. You can update the excel file and run the macro in ppt. The text in the slides will be updated automatically.
I'm using VBA to create a series of charts in Excel and then copying them into a Word file.
Up till now I've been pasting the charts as pictures, so in Excel I used
ActiveChart.CopyPicture
and then in Word, after selecting the target location:Selection.Paste.
Now I want to change it so the charts will be editable but not linked to the source Excel file.
I copy a chart from Excel using ActiveChart.ChartArea.Copyand look at the paste-special options in Word, the options "use destination theme/keep source formatting & embed workbook" work fine for me:
the chart is editable (also the data is editable which I don't need but is OK) and there is no link to the original Excel file.
BUT - I can't find how to perform this through VBA code. Trying to record this in a macro only give me Selection.Paste - which pastes a linked chart.
I also tried a different approach - pasting a linked chart, and then killing the link. once again, deleting the links in the link editor doesn't get recorded in the macro at all.
Please help with coding any of these two options or suggesting a different approach.
The Range.PasteAndFormat method should work. This takes a WdRecoveryType Enum parameter that lets you specify what kind of result you want.
Selection.PasteAndFormat(wdChart) 'Enum value 14 in case of late binding
A very simple question I suppose, but I reached a deadlock with this:
I have to use a .bat file to imput plain text data into the right cells an excel sheet with lots of graphics content, vba parts, macro that deactivate "normal" EXCEL buttons and functions, password to protect the pre-typed functions, sudden and unexpected changes in the version of the "taget file", and many other complications...
My need is to be absolutely sure that the .bat is sending the sequence into the right version of the .xlsm file.
To do that I want to store the last known filename (that include the file version) in the .bat file, and I want to take focus on the excel window in wich the data have to be written ONLY IF the title of the excel window is exactly the same.
So Here is the question: How to get the focus on a specific open file from a .bat file?
You can't. If you wanted to use vbscript or jscript you could do what you want in a command prompt in an unreliable way (but it will work most circumstances).
Excel has it's own forms.
Put column headers in a row. Put selection in same row. Alt + D, O.
Plus you can make Excel only allow entries on some cells, like a invoice form.
Right click cell, Properties, Protection, Unlock. Then Alt + T, P, P.
Word has it's own forms similar to Excel (Word is also a spreadsheet).
Excel VBA language (and VBScript too) has input box command.
Sub main()
Sheet1.Range("A1").Value2 = InputBox("enter Value")
End Sub
I have a very strange issue that I cannot seem to find an answer to online.
I have a VB.NET application that creates an Excel of data (roughly 42,542 rows in total) and the saves the file to a folder location & opens it on screen for the user.
The onscreen version & folder version is only showing 16,372 rows of data like it is being cut off.
When I go through debug I can see all the rows are being added & if I save manually in debug all the rows save. Some data seems to get lost on the system save.
I am taking data from 4 record sets & writing each set one after the other with specific headers for each block on the Excel sheet.
My save line is:
xlWBook.SaveAs(Filename:=sFileName, FileFormat:=Excel.XlFileFormat.xlExcel7)
Would anyone please have any ideas as to what this might be?
Older version of Excel only support 16,384 rows per worksheet. You are saving as Excel7 (which is Excel 95) and has this limitation:
See here for a summary of sizes per version:
https://superuser.com/questions/366468/what-is-the-maximum-allowed-rows-in-a-microsoft-excel-xls-or-xlsx
Change your code to another format, See here for all the allowed formats: XlFileFormat Enumeration
However the file format is actually an optional argument in the SaveAs method, so you could leave it off altogether: "For an existing file, the default format is the last file format specified; for a new file, the default is the format of the version of Excel being used."
Source: WorkBook.SaveAs Method