Is there a method to paste from the clipboard in Google Sheets? I recorded a macro that includes a "paste" but when I looked at the script the "paste" function hard coded the values. I looked through the documentation but could not find anything like paste from clipboard values.
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I am using data in an Excel workbook to create an HTML string when a user clicks a button. I then use VBA to save that string as an .html file, open it in Word, and bring Word to the foreground. That all works great.
Now, I'd like to add a line(s) to the VBA to select the document formatting.
In the Word doc that opens, there's this in the ribbon:
When I hover over that formatting option, it's called "Lines (simple)." I can click it in Word, and it formats the text exactly how I want it. But, I'd like to do so automatically with the VBA over in Excel that created and launched the Word document. Unfortunately I just don't know which command or property that is and haven't been able to find it with searches or document inspection. I'd appreciate your help.
The goal of my code is to run an online report, copy the data from an exported excel file and paste it back to the main file, and then manipulate the data.
The trouble I'm running into now is copying the data from the exported excel file. The online report exports the excel file as an unsaved "Book1" with one "Sheet1" with the data in it. I cannot seem to activate the exported file so I can copy the sheet.
I've tried
Workbooks("Book1").Activate
As well as using a for loop to iterate through all open workbooks (there are only 2 open workbooks, but the for loop only loops once - telling me that it isn't looping through the unsaved workbook).
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Happy to clarify any questions as well.
Thanks
I would like to use a spreadsheet containing all the data and paste it to a PowerPoint presentation that I am currently working on and I will like the presentation to be sync with the spreadsheet.I have to do this to many PowerPoint slides and it is taking forever. I would like to do this task in Visual Basic.
I am currently doing this manually by using paste special from Excel to PowerPoint and choosing "Paste link" and selecting as "Microsoft Excel Worksheet Object."
I don't want to paste the entire block of cells from the spreadsheet. I want to paste one cell at the time, because the cells are not meant to look like a table in PowerPoint and are not together.
Thank you,
I've written a macro in PowerPoint that, as part of its process, will convert a linked chart in a PowerPoint presentation to an embedded chart by copying the source Excel chart and pasting that copied chart in as an OLE object -- the specific command is, "sldComponent.Shapes.PasteSpecial(ppPasteOLEObject)".
Until today, this has worked fine in all versions from 2003 to 2010. However, when trying to run this function in 2013/365, I keep getting a run-time error stating "The specified data type is not available" (-2147188160 / 80048240). I also notice that in the Microsoft Developers Reference webpage, "ppPasteOLEObject" is no longer listed as an acceptable datatype for the PasteSpecial method (when used with the Shapes collection).
I have found several ways to programmatically paste the chart as a picture, but whenever I click on the pasted chart and try to access the data, I keep getting the message "The linked file is not available." I want the data to be entirely self-contained so the PowerPoint user can edit it without reference to the original Excel file. Interestingly, when I stop the PowerPoint macro at the buggy line and then manually click "Paste" on the ribbon, the copied chart does paste, fully embedded with data accessible, into the active slide -- so the chart is getting copied into the Clipboard; the PowerPoint macro is simply unable to read and paste it for some reason. Even more interestingly (read: frustratingly), the PasteSpecial(ppPasteOLEObject) command will work for tables copied from Excel, i.e. cell ranges, but not for charts.
What happened? How does one use VBA code in PowerPoint 2013 to embed (i.e. insert a previously-created, self-contained Excel chart including all data right in the presentation slide) an Excel chart in the new version?
ADD: I should also note that the command used to get the chart from the source worksheet in Excel is "xlCopySheet.ChartObjects(1).Select", then "appExcel.Selection.Copy". Is the problem that the chosen Copy syntax is not capturing the entire chart including data but only the display? What is the correct Copy syntax to use here?
ADD 2: Further specification: The original macro was saved and was running with both Excel and PowerPoint in Compatibility (97-2003) mode, although the apps themselves are the 2013/Office 365 versions.
If you paste the chart as a "Microsoft Office Graphic Object", the chart is pasted as an Excel chart. You can format it within PowerPoint using the Excel ribbon's Chart Tools tab, which appear in PowerPoint. If you click any of the edit/select data buttons, it opens the data in Excel.
If you paste the chart as a Microsoft Excel Chart Object, it is pasted as an embedded workbook (the entire workbook, not just the chart and its data), with a new chart sheet inserted in the embedded workbook, and this chart sheet is what is visible. You need to double click to format or edit the chart, which opens the embedded workbook in Excel, and may mess up the size of the embedded object (so it's chart-sheet sized, not chart-embedded-in-the-worksheet sized) and things like font size.
If I copy the chart in Excel and use this in the PowerPoint VB Immediate Window
activepresentation.Slides(3).Shapes.PasteSpecial ppPasteOLEObject
I get the second behavior.
You might want to try copying the chart using this:
xlCopySheet.ChartObjects(1).Chart.Copy
I am creating a macro that converts a Word 2007 document into a structured PowerPoint 2007 presentation. I am looping over all the paragraphs of the document and copying them over to the new presentation.
I am able to copy and paste the paragraphs to the presentation just fine. But I also need to be able to copy and paste the pictures from the Word document into the PowerPoint (and in the right location between paragraphs).
So far, I am able to detect if a paragraph is a picture by looking at the paragraph's style attribute - it will say "Figure". But, I don't know what to do from there. After looking online, it looks like I should be able to do this:
paragraphFromDocument.Range.Copy
currentSlide.Shapes.Paste
But, this doesn't seem to work. How do I copy a picture from Word to PowerPoint?
Thanks
EDIT
I've also tried:
paragraphFromDocument.Range.CopyAsPicture
currentSlide.Shapes.PasteSpecial(ppPasteMetafilePicture)
and get this error message:
Shapes.PasteSpecial : Invalid Request. Clipboard is empty or contains data which may not be posted here.
But, when I use that CopyAsPicture command, I am able to open up PowerPoint (with the picture still on the clipboard from the macro) and use the Paste Special command to paste the picture to the slide.
paragraphFromDocument.Range.Copy
currentSlide.Shapes.Paste
actually did end up working, but I had to remove all special characters from the range first. That is why it was giving me the error message.