VBA Access - Find and Replace text in Word Document - vba

Question

I have successfully written some VBA code in Excel which opens an existing Word document, finds and replaces a string based on information in the Excel worksheet.
As the source data exists comes from an Access Database, I thought I would try and move the VBA code into Access and run it from there.
The updated code works mostly but strangely, the part of the code which finds and replaces the text string doesn't work when I run it in access.
Sub CreateFormsPDF()
' Creates Garda Vetting Forms NVB1 in Word and saves as PDF
Dim WordApp As Object
Dim WordDoc As Object
Dim db As Database
Dim rs As Recordset
Dim Records As Integer
Dim IDAnchor As String
Dim ID As String
Dim FilePath As String, SaveAsName As String
FilePath = "N:\"
' Start Word and create an object (late binding)
' Document already exists so reference this
Set WordApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
Set WordDoc = WordApp.Documents.Open(FilePath & "Form1.docx")
WordApp.Application.Visible = True
' Point to the relevant table in the Current Database
Set db = CurrentDb
Set rs = db.OpenRecordset("qryMailingList", dbOpenDynaset, dbSeeChanges)
Records = rs.RecordCount
' Cycle through all records in MailingList Query
Do Until rs.EOF
' Define IDAnchor
IDAnchor = "$$ID$$"
' Assign current data to variables
ID = rs!StudentID
' Determine the filename
SaveAsName = FilePath & ID & ".pdf"
' Send commands to Word
With WordApp
With WordDoc.Content.Find
.Text = IDAnchor
.Replacement.Text = ID
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With
.ActiveDocument.SaveAs2 FileName:=SaveAsName, FileFormat:=17
End With
IDAnchor = ID
rs.MoveNext
Loop
WordApp.Quit savechanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges
Set WordApp = Nothing
Set WordDoc = Nothing
Set rs = Nothing
Set db = Nothing
MsgBox Records & " Forms Created"
End Sub
The code executes fine, with one exception which is the Find and Replace element in Word i.e.
' Send commands to Word
With WordApp
With WordDoc.Content.Find
.Text = IDAnchor
.Replacement.Text = ID
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With
.ActiveDocument.SaveAs2 FileName:=SaveAsName, FileFormat:=17
End With
What is even stranger is that I have a version of this code running via Excel and this runs without any problems at all and I've lifted this section of code from that subroutine exactly as is. So this works in Excel, but not in Access but I've no idea why.
Would really appreciate any help that might be available
Many thanks...

Answer 1

Actually I've just figured it out myself...I hadn't referenced the Word object library under tools.
Always something simple!