VBA Selection.PasteAndFormat adding a line break - vba

Question

I have a VBA Script that finds a named cell in Excel and pastes it in Word based on an identifier that I have in Word. I use RegEx to find the identifier.
The problem that I am experiencing is, whenever it pastes the value (correctly) it "presses Enter" so that it goes to the next line. It should not.
Here is the script:
Dim objWord, objWordDoc, RegEx, objExcel, objWorkbook, content, texts, text, Text_Name
Set RegEx = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set objWordDoc = objWord.Documents.Open("D:\Performance Review Template Rev1.docx", False, True)
Set objWorkbook = objExcel.Workbooks.Open("D:\Template Rev1.xlsm", False, True)
'The entire content of the Word Document
Set content = objWord.ActiveDocument.Content
'The Regular Expression in terms of finding the short code within the document
'Explanation
'-----------
'\[# == Escaped [# characters to indicate that the start of the search needs to be an [#
'(.*?) == The forward seach in a non greedy way that is also the return group
'\] == Escaped ] character that signals the end of the search term
RegEx.Pattern = "\[#(.*?)\]"
RegEx.Global = True
Set texts = RegEx.Execute(content)
Dim Found
For Each text In texts
Set content = objWord.ActiveDocument.Content
'Find the TextName that is in the short code. The Submatches property returns
'the value of the inner return group, whereas the .Value property only returns
'the value of the short code with the [!xxx] added
Text_Name = text.submatches(0)
Dim xName, xText
Found = False
'Search for the text through all the Named Cells in the Excel file
objExcel.Range(Text_Name).Copy
With content.Find
.MatchWholeWord = True
.Text = text.Value
.Execute
If .Found = True Then
Found = True
content.PasteAndFormat 20
End If
End With
If Found = False Then
MsgBox "Did not find Named Cell!"
End If
With content.Find
.Text = text.Value
.Execute
If .Found = True Then
objWord.Selection.Range.Delete
End If
End With
Next
MsgBox "Completed named cells"
objWord.ActiveDocument.Close
objWord.Application.Quit
objExcel.ActiveWorkbook.Close
objExcel.Application.Quit
Like always, any help is always appreciated.

Answer 1

This seems to be standard behavior of copy functionality (doing it manually gives same result).
Proposed solution could be to use direct copying of content instead of using copy & paste.
Formatting is also preserved from target document.
Here is tested code (Changes marked with %%%%):
Dim objWord, objWordDoc, RegEx, objExcel, objWorkbook, content, texts, text, Text_Name, copiedText ' %%%% Added variable
Set RegEx = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set objWordDoc = objWord.Documents.Open("D:\Performance Review Template Rev1.docx", False, True)
Set objWorkbook = objExcel.Workbooks.Open("D:\Template Rev1.xlsm", False, True)
'The entire content of the Word Document
Set content = objWord.ActiveDocument.content
'The Regular Expression in terms of finding the short code within the document
'Explanation
'-----------
'\[# == Escaped [# characters to indicate that the start of the search needs to be an [#
'(.*?) == The forward seach in a non greedy way that is also the return group
'\] == Escaped ] character that signals the end of the search term
RegEx.Pattern = "\[#(.*?)\]"
RegEx.Global = True
Set texts = RegEx.Execute(content)
Dim Found
For Each text In texts
Set content = objWord.ActiveDocument.content
'Find the TextName that is in the short code. The Submatches property returns
'the value of the inner return group, whereas the .Value property only returns
'the value of the short code with the [!xxx] added
Text_Name = text.submatches(0)
Dim xName, xText
Found = False
'Search for the text through all the Named Cells in the Excel file
copiedText = objExcel.Range(Text_Name).text ' %%%%
' %%%% Instead of objExcel.Range(Text_Name).Copy
With content.Find
.MatchWholeWord = True
.text = text.Value
.Execute
If .Found = True Then
Found = True
.Parent.text = copiedText ' %%%%
' %%%% Instead of content.PasteAndFormat 20
End If
End With
If Found = False Then
MsgBox "Did not find Named Cell!"
End If
With content.Find
.text = text.Value
.Execute
If .Found = True Then
objWord.Selection.Range.Delete
End If
End With
Next
MsgBox "Completed named cells"
objWord.ActiveDocument.Close
objWord.Application.Quit
objExcel.ActiveWorkbook.Close
objExcel.Application.Quit