I have the following code in VBA (MS Word), that is meant to run after I click in a button, named cmdFormPreencher inserted in my Document:
Private Sub cmdFormPreencher_Click()
'
If ActiveDocument.FormsDesign = False Then
ActiveDocument.ToggleFormsDesign
End If
'
ThisDocument.cmdFormPreencher.Select
ThisDocument.cmdFormPreencher.Delete
ActiveDocument.ToggleFormsDesign
'
UserForm2.Show
End Sub
The purpose of the code above is to delete that button inserted in my document.
But when I run the code only the button is selected. When I tried to figure out what is happening by debugging, it showed me the code runs until ActiveDocument.ToggleFormsDesign and not running the code remaining
Is this a bug of VBA, or am I doing something wrong? If so, how can I get around this problem?
Thanks!
Note: The ActiveX button is not in Header and Footer. The Text Wrap is set to In Front of Text
Edit:
When I try to run a macro, activating FormDesign, Selecting the ActiveX button and then deleting, I get this code:
Sub Macro1()
'
' Macro1 Macro
'
'
ActiveDocument.ToggleFormsDesign
ActiveDocument.Shapes("Control 52").Select
Selection.ShapeRange.Delete
ActiveDocument.ToggleFormsDesign
End Sub
But when I run this code nothing happens...
This is by design. When an Office application is in Design Mode code should not run on an ActiveX object that's part of the document.
I take it this is an ActiveX button and in that case, it's a member of the InlineShapes or Shapes collection - Word handles it like a graphic object. It should be enough to delete the graphical representation, which you can do by changing it to display as an icon instead of a button.
For example, for an InlineShape:
Sub DeleteActiveX()
Dim ils As word.InlineShape
Set ils = ActiveDocument.InlineShapes(1)
ils.OLEFormat.DisplayAsIcon = True
ils.Delete
End Sub
You just have to figure out how to identify the InlineShape or Shape. You could bookmark an InlineShape; a Shape has a Name property.
EDIT: Since according to subsequent information provided in Comments you have a Shape object, rather than an InlineShape, the following approach should work:
Dim shp As word.Shape
Set shp = ActiveDocument.Shapes("Shape Name") 'Index value can also be used
shp.Delete
Note that Word will automatically assign something to the Shape.Name property, but in the case of ActiveX controls these names can change for apparently no reason. So if you identify a control using its name instead of the index value it's much better to assign a name yourself, which Word will not change "on a whim".
Activate Design Mode.
Click on the control to select it
Go to the VB Editor window
Ctrl+G to put the focus in the "Immediate Window"
Type the following (substituting the name you want), then press Enter to execute:
Selection.ShapeRange(1).Name = "Name to assign"
Use this Name in the code above
Related
I currently have this code
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
Dim myCell As Range
For Each myCell In Range("G4:G160")
If (Not IsEmpty(myCell)) And myCell.Value <> 17521 And myCell.Value <> "" Then
DisplayUserForm
Exit Sub
End If
Next myCell
End Sub
and have this for my userform
Sub DisplayUserForm()
Dim form As New WarningBox
form.LOL.Caption = "INCORRECT!"
form.Show
Set form = Nothing
End Sub
What else must I do in order for this to appear instead of msgbox to alert whoever is entering data will be showing "INCORRECT!" in bold and Surrounded by red.
Please see image below of what I am trying to show
Please follow these steps:
Insert a new Form by right-clicking on your VBA project and selecting UserForm under the Insert option.
Click once on the created form and then press the ``F4key to open theProperties``` window.
On the Properties window, the default name for your form is UserForm1. Change it to any new value as you want (e.g., WarningBox)
From the ToolBox window, drag and drop a Label on your form and adjust its size, font, font color, and all other properties that exist on the Properties window. Please rename the label to message. I will use this name later when calling the form to be shown.
If you want, like step 4, add a CommandButton to your form and change its name to for example okButton and adjust other properties as you want.
Double click on the button to write the code for this button. Write the code as follows:
Private Sub okButton_Click()
'Close the form
Unload Me
End Sub
Now, modify your DisplayUserForm() sub as follows:
Sub DisplayUserForm()
Dim form As New warningBox
form.message.Caption = "write your message here"
form.Show
Set form = Nothing
End Sub
All will be done as you want!
Marc: if your "Incorrect" message is the "LOL" object whose caption you modify with the code form.LOL.Caption = "INCORRECT!", it will be editable if it is a TextBox object. Saeed Sayyadipour's example shows using a Label object, instead, that will not be editable by the user (and I 'second' his advice about the "OK" button).
Also, though, since the event tells you which cells were changed by defining the "Target" range object, do you really need to loop through all of G4:G160, since only the cells within Target were changed by the user? Perhaps use For Each MyCell in Intersect(Target,Range("G4:G160")), or perhaps add these lines where appropriate:
Dim AffectedCells as Range
...
Set AffectedCells=Intersect(Target,Range("G4:G160"))
...
Set AffectedCells=Nothing
and change your loop to:
For Each myCell in AffectedCells
...
Next myCell
If there is no overlap between the changed range (Target) and your G4:G160, nothing happens and your code exits quickly.
Thanks to 2 posts (here and here), I know how to highlight text of a textbox in PowerPoint with VBA code.
However, the problem of unhighlighting text remains unsolved. I tried to set properties of a non-highlighted textbox to TextRange2.Font (e.g. .TextFrame2.TextRange.Font.Highlight.SchemeColor = -2) but receive errors when trying so (The typed value is out of range).
Can someone help to solve this issue, please?
Additionally, when changing the highlight color
(e.g. TextRange2.Font.Highlight.RGB = RGB(255, 255, 175)) the formatting of my textbox changes, so the font is changing its color from my preset white to black and the font size gets smaller. Is there any way to preserve the original settings for the textbox? Is this happening due to the access of .TextRange2 and not .TextRange?
Thanks for your help!
In PowerPoint 2019/365 it is possible to remove highlight by using built-in Mso "TextHighlightColorPickerLicensed".
This code sample illustrates how to unhighlight text in selected shapes. It finds Runs containing highlighting, selects them and removes highlight by programmatically invoking Command Bar "Highlight" button.
Preconditions: PowerPoint 2019 or 365. Presentation must be opened with window.
Option Explicit
Sub UnhighlightTextInSelectedShape()
Dim sh As Shape
For Each sh In ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange
UnhighlightTextInShape sh
Next
End Sub
Sub UnhighlightTextInShape(sh As Shape)
On Error GoTo Finish
Dim highlightIsRemoved As Boolean
Dim tf As TextFrame2
Set tf = sh.TextFrame2
Do
Dim r As TextRange2
highlightIsRemoved = True
For Each r In tf.TextRange.Runs
If r.Font.Highlight.Type <> msoColorTypeMixed Then
' Indicate that text contains highlighting
highlightIsRemoved = False
' The text to un-highlight must be selected
r.Select
If Application.CommandBars.GetEnabledMso("TextHighlightColorPickerLicensed") Then
' This Mso toggles highlighting on selected text.
' That is why selection must contain highlight of the same type
Application.CommandBars.ExecuteMso ("TextHighlightColorPickerLicensed")
' Unhighlighting May invalidate number of runs, so exit this loop
Exit For
Else
Exit Do
End If
End If
Next
Loop Until highlightIsRemoved
Finish:
If Not highlightIsRemoved Then
MsgBox "Unhighlighting is not supported"
End If
End Sub
Sometimes Application.CommandBars.ExecuteMso() method gives access to features not available via PowerPoint API.
The MsoId is displayed in tooltip text in PowerPoint options window:
I would like to make a macro in Powerpoint that enables me to create shapes in a similar fashion as when you select the autoshapes in the autoshape overview (i.e. once you call the macro you have a possibility to click to set the coordinates and subsequently you drag and click to set the width&height). Also, I would like to give it pre-set cosmetic characteristics (e.g. certain inner margins, fill color, border style and transparancy), which will be defined in the vba code.
I am aware of .addshapes(), however, this requires coordinates and height/width as input. Moreover, I have not find any posts / documents on vba to create shapes without defined coordinates and height/width.
Anyone some ideas on how to tackle this challenge?
Many thanks in advance!
Sofar
Building on what John Korchok suggested, here's code that retrieves the just-drawn shape so that your code can resume and manipulate it...
Sub testAppComBars()
Dim SHP As Shape
Application.CommandBars.ExecuteMso ("ShapeFreeform")
Stop
Set SHP = Selection.ShapeRange(1)
With SHP.Fill
.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(192, 0, 0)
.Transparency = 0.75
End With
End Sub
I would hope there's a more elegant solution than using Stop to pause code execution while the user picks the shape's location (or in this case, draws a freeform polyline/polygon), but that's all I could come up with off the top of my head.
I was fascinated by this problem and think this might help you.
Consider that when you draw a new autoshape, you have changed the window selection, and created a new selection ShapeRange with exactly 1 item (the new shape).
So by setting a WindowSelectionChange event, you're able to apply any formatting you wish at the time of creation.
First create a class module called cPptEvents with the following:
Public WithEvents PPTEvent As Application
Private Sub PPTEvent_WindowSelectionChange(ByVal sel As Selection)
On Error GoTo Errhandler
Debug.Print "IN_PPTEvent_WindowSelectionChange"
Dim oShp As Shape
If (ActiveWindow.ViewType = ppViewNormal) Then
With sel
If .Type = ppSelectionShapes Then
If .ShapeRange.Count = 1 Then
Set oShp = .ShapeRange(1)
If oShp.Type = msoAutoShape Then
If oShp.AutoShapeType = msoShapeOval Then
If oShp.Tags("new_oval") = "" Then
oShp.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(255, 0, 0)
oShp.Tags.Add "new_oval", "true"
End If
End If
End If
End If
End If
End With
End If
Exit Sub
Errhandler:
Debug.Print "Error: " & Err.Description
End Sub
This checks the selection every time it changes. If there's an oval selected, it looks for the "new_oval" tag, which will not exist for a newly created shape. In that case, it applies a red fill, although of course once you get to this point you can call an entirely different sub, pass along the shape, and do whatever you want formatting-wise to it.
By adding that "new_oval" tag, you ensure that the formatting will not be applied to an oval that hasn't been newly created. This allows the user to make manual changes to the formatting as needed -- otherwise you're just resetting the formatting every time the user selects an oval.
Note that for the _WindowSelectionChange event to be running in the background, you have to call this at some point:
Public MyEventClassModule As New cPptEvents
'
Public Sub StartMeUp()
Set MyEventClassModule.PPTEvent = Application
End Sub
You can include that one line from StartMeUp above in whatever Ribbon_Onload sub is triggered by your addin, if you're making a new addin ribbon.
With this solution, you don't even have to give the end user a special button or set of tools to create the shapes that are being formatted. It happens invisibly whenever the user draws a new shape from the native PPT tools.
This will put your cursor in drawing mode to draw an oval. After running, you may have to click on the slide once, then the cursor will change shape and you can draw an oval:
Sub DrawOval()
Application.CommandBars.ExecuteMso ("ShapeOval")
End Sub
Other commands to substitute for ShapeOval:
ShapeRectangle
ShapeElbowConnectorArrow
ShapeStraightConnectorArrow
Get the full list in Excel spreadsheets from Microsoft Office 2016 Help Files: Office Fluent User Interface Control Identifiers
Look for the powerpointcontrols.xlsx file and search the first column with "shape"
There are 173 shapes in the menu, so you have a lot of macros to write.
I am working on a VBA script with Microsoft Word that allows the user to select text that will be be copied to the clipboard so that it can exported to an Excel file. The user will make a number of selections and finally indicate he/she is done when the contents of the clipboard will be copied to a template Excel file.
There are two forms: the first (UserForm1 in the code below) queries the user for the Word filename. The filename variable is passed to the second form. The second form (frmModeLessForInput) is a modeless form. The behavior I need is that program control goes to the second form with two buttons "Continue" and "Done".
The user is allowed to navigate the document and place the cursor anywhere in the document. Then when "Continue" is pressed the form will call a subroutine (Highlight_Sentence) to copy the selected text to a "clipboard" variable. When "Done" is pressed control will be passed to called main module which will then copy the clipboard to the Excel file.
Below is the code. I have noted with comments where I am trouble with the code. One problem is the variables defined as Public in the ThisDocument module are not defined in the userforms and their subroutines.
The second problem is in the main module that the frmModelessForInput is supposed to be displayed and control is not supposed to be transferred to next statement {MsgBox "Sentences will now be copied to Excel file"....this is where I will put the code to copy the clipboard to the Excel file.} but the message appears before the frmModelessForInput form is run...thus the clipboard will be empty.
The third problem is that in frmModelessForInput form the statement str_clipboard = str_clipboard + str_clipboard_line is not working. Each time the "Continue" button is pushed str_clipboard loses it previous contents.
Any assistance in resolving these problems is appreciated. As VBA programming is a sideline for me I am still learning.
Note this an updated question Pause VBA Word macro, allow user to make a selection, and restart where it left off adding some more detail on the requirement and the sample code.
MAIN MODULE:
Option Explicit
Public str_clipboard As String
Public txt_active_document As String
Public i_how_many_sentences As Integer
Private Sub Test_master_macro()
UserForm1.Show
i_how_many_sentences = 0
Call DisplayModeless
MsgBox "Sentences will now be copied to Excel file" 'Problem: this msg displays before the frmModelessForInput is displayed
End Sub
Sub DisplayModeless()
Dim frm As frmModelessForInput
Set frm = New frmModelessForInput
With frmModelessForInput
.str_word_doc_filename = txt_active_document
.str_no_copied = "0"
.Show False
End With
Set frm = Nothing
End Sub
USERFORM1: form has field for user entering the document filename to user (str_filename) and a command button to close form (cmd_start_selecting_text)
Private Sub cmd_start_selecting_text_Click()
'User enters filename on form for use in frmModelessForInput subroutine
txt_active_document = UserForm1.str_filename 'Problem: VBA reports txt_active_document as undefined even though it is a Public variable
Unload Me
End Sub
FRMMODELESSFORINPUT: Form displays filename of Word file entered in UserForm1 and how many sentences have been copied to the clipboard
Option Explicit
Private Sub cmdContinue_Click()
Dim str_clipboard, str_clipboard_line As String
Call Highlight_Sentence(str_clipboard_line)
i_how_many_sentences = i_how_many_sentences + 1 'Problem: VBA reports i_how_many_sentences as undefined even though it is a Public variable
frmModelessForInput.str_no_copied = i_how_many_sentences 'Same Problem
str_clipboard = str_clipboard + str_clipboard_line 'Problem: each time I select a new text/sentence str_clipboard does not contain the contents of the previous selection
End Sub
Private Sub cmdDone_Click()
Me.Hide
End Sub
Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
'Position the form near the top-left of the window
'So that the user can work with the document
Me.Top = Application.ActiveWindow.Top + 15
Me.Left = Application.ActiveWindow.Left + 15
End Sub
Private Sub Highlight_Sentence(clipboard As String)
'This sub extends the selection to the entire sentence and copies the selection, the page number on which the selection is contained and the filename to the clipboard variable
Dim txt_sentence, txt_page_no As String
With Selection
' Collapse current selection.
.Collapse
' Expand selection to current sentence.
.Expand Unit:=wdSentence
End With
txt_sentence = Selection.Text
txt_page_no = Selection.Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber)
clipboard = txt_active_document & vbTab & txt_page_no & vbTab & txt_sentence & vbCrLf 'Problem: VBA reports txt_active_document as undefined even though it is a Public variable
End Sub
From what you stated you are running this from the ThisDocument Class Module and unless you fully qualify your references to those Public variables with the Class Name that is why you cannot access them from the UserForms Class Modules.
If you are going to leave your "Main Module" code in the ThisDocument Class Module then whenever you reference those Public variable you need to add ThisDocument.str_clipboard to the command.
I recommend however, to place your Main Module in a general Module such as NewModule and if you need to run it at a Document_Open event that you put a call to the Main Module and its Public variables in the Private Sub Document_Open event of the ThisDocument Class Module.
Your Msgbox is appearing at the wrong time because you are displaying a modeless user form, which means the VBA script thread continues to run after the UserForm is displayed. Move the Msgbox to the UserForm_Activate routine of the second UserForm you are displaying or move it to the Click_Done routine of the first UserForm before you Hide or Unload it.
Finally, you are not really using the Clipboard and using that term makes your code confusing in my opinion. I think you should rename it. Your code also appears to just be building one continuous string of text. Is that really what you want to do? Or, do you really mean to capture each selected text string and ultimately place each into separate cells within an Excel Worksheet? If that is the case, use an Array for the separate text strings.
I have added a rectangle shape to a spreadsheet. I now wish to use a macro on event RectangleA_Click(). I know the shape's name is RectangleA as I have the below sub:
Sub f()
Dim Shape As Shape
For Each Shape In ActiveSheet.Shapes
Debug.Print Shape.Name
Next
End Sub
I have written the code:
Private Sub RectangleA_Click()
MsgBox "hello"
End Sub
In the relevant sheet object space in the editor. On clicking the shape the subroutine is not called.
I am aware that I can assign this using right click> assign macro, but would prefer to avoid this as it seems like an unnecessary step. I'm also aware that there are Active X controls which automatically assign the macro, again I would prefer to avoid this if possible.
Something like this may work:
Sub AssignMacroToShape()
Set shpTemp = ActiveSheet.Shapes.AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, 1680#, 594#, 120#, 74.25)
shpTemp.OnAction = ActiveWorkbook.Name & "!Macro Name"
End Sub
But it will be much easier just to right click > Assign Macro.
This above code is useful if you need to create the shape then assign a macro to it after creation.
You can look into the OnAction event to get the answer to specifics if this doesn't help.