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
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I´m trying to simply copy whole word document into excel and keep the source formatting (and images).
Assuming both documents are open.
I tried this code:
Sheets("Nabídka").Range("A" & 87) = Documents("K4E pila.docx").Range.Text
but it only copies the text without formatting and images. Is there a similar command which includes the formatting?
Even If I copy/paste from word to excel (ctrl+c) the formatting is ruined --> The image overlaps the text.
This is the first step I need to figure out to proceed in my project. The outcome should be: Copy all word documents into excel if the name of the word document matches some excel cells values.
Thanks in advance for any help!
I need to create a button to add to Excel (2010 currently) that will strip all the formatting in that column and just leave plain text. Our current solution is to copy the data into Notepad to strip out the formatting and then copy it back in from Notepad. This works, but is inelegant and would be far easier if I could just create a button to do this within Excel itself. I've seen a few solutions posted but none of them seem to deal with a randomly selected column. Help!
The Range.ClearFormats method seems appropriate here.
With Worksheets("Sheet1")
.Columns(1).ClearFormats 'clear formatting from column A
End With
'for a manually selected group of cells
Selection.ClearFormats 'clear formatting from the cells currently selected
fwiw, the Clear Formats command is available on the ribbon through Home ► Editing ► Clear ► Clear Formats (Alt+H+E+F). You could easily add that command to the QAT rather than create a macro that largely duplicates the command and assign it to a custom button.
Excel already has a button on the Home tab:
Just select the entire column and click Clear Formats
Just to add to Jeeped's answer:
Using this code you'll clear the whole columns formatting (select a random cell, run this code and the whole columns formatting has been cleared)
Sub ClearColumn()
i = ActiveCell.Column
ActiveSheet.Columns(i).ClearFormats
End Sub
In PowerPoint 2010 or Word 2010, when I choose Insert -> Chart, it creates a new chart with an Excel worksheet for the data.
If I add a macro to the Excel worksheet, this seems to be discarded when I close the worksheet and re-open it.
However, it is possible to have a chart with macros, because I also have some Word documents & PowerPoint presentations that I created in Office 2003, which had embedded Excel charts with macros. When I converted those to Office 2010, they look just like "normal" Office 2010 charts, but the macros are preserved.
It looks to me like the embedded chart that gets created when you choose Insert -> Chart is in the "pptx" format rather than the "pptm" format, and so macros are not saved.
(If I query ActiveWorkbook.FileFormat, I get "51", which is "Open Xml Spreadsheet"; this is indeed "pptx", as opposed to "Open Xml Spreadsheet with Macros", which is "52").
How can I insert a chart with the "pptm" behavior? Or change the behavior of an existing chart?
NOTE: I do not want to insert a chart "object", since this means that the chart is not editable within the host application (it merely inserts an Excel chart that you need to "open" in order to edit it).
Let me give you a head start... I can achieve what I want by the following method:
Create a new document in Word (or PowerPoint).
Save the document as a 97-2003 document (which forces it into compatibility mode).
Insert a chart using Insert->Object->Microsoft Excel Chart. This embeds an old-style Excel chart.
Open the embedded chart by right-click->Open, and add a macro.
Close the chart, then choose File->Info and use the Compatibility Mode "Convert" button to convert the document into an Office 2010 document.
Now you have a "native" Word or PowerPoint 2010 chart, which you can edit directly in Word or PowerPoint. If you click on the chart and choose Chart Tools->Design->Edit Data, then the Excel worksheet that opens has the macros you created in step 4. Success!
Now, does anyone have a simpler way?
In my opinion you could achieve what you need in the following way:
(unfortunately, I can't present it with pictures and exact English commands as I'm using local-not English-version of Office)
Choose Insert >> Object >> Object...
In Object window take first page (like Create new)
Search for Microsoft Excel Chart (or something similar) and press
OK
You will get Workbook with two sheets as presented on the picture
below
(there are chart editing feature available on the Ribbon)
Press Alt+F11 while you are in Chart edition like presented in the
picture above. You will get IDE for Excel opened where you will find
appropriate workbook.
Add new module and macro there
Now you could exit chart edition in Word and save document as *.docm
After you will reopen it, go to Chart Edition (double click) >> Alt+F11 >> you will
find you macro there saved within the workbook with *docm extension.
Now that the bounty has passed (with no better answers), I'll add the partial answer from my question, in order to be able to close the question.
Create a new document in Word (or PowerPoint).
Save the document as
a 97-2003 document (which forces it into compatibility mode).
Insert
a chart using Insert->Object->Microsoft Excel Chart. This embeds an
old-style Excel chart.
Open the embedded chart by right-click->Open,
and add a macro.
Close the chart, then choose File->Info and use the
Compatibility Mode "Convert" button to convert the document into an
Office 2010 document.
Now you have a "native" Word or PowerPoint 2010 chart, which you can edit directly in Word or PowerPoint. If you click on the chart and choose Chart Tools->Design->Edit Data, then the Excel worksheet that opens has the macros you created in step 4. Success!
I'm still interested in being able to do this more directly...
The issue is with how the charts data is held within the application. Converting and originating are two different processes. Your data series is basically an array not an excel sheet. It just uses excel to display the data to you to edit. You need to keep your code in the module for powerpoint/word and access the chart via the shapes object if you do not want to embed a excel sheet.
Sub GetChartName()
Dim sSlide As Slide
Dim cChart As Chart
Dim sShape As Shape
Set sSlide = PowerPoint.ActivePresentation.Slides(1)
For Each sShape In sSlide.Shapes
If sShape.HasChart Then
Set cChart = sShape.Chart
MsgBox cChart.Name
Set cChart = Nothing
End If
Next
Set sSlide = Nothing
End Sub
i am trying to take a cell range from excel and copy it to powerpoint2010. However I do not want to use the Embedded format but rather the KeepSourceFormatting one. I tried the following command
ActiveWindow.View.PasteSpecial DataType:=ppPasteOLEObject, Link:=msoFalse
but this still creates an object that launches excel to edit the contents.
basically I want to paste a table of formated data from excel to powerpoint and maintain its appearance but still be able to edit the contents in powerpoint.
any ideas?
There are following options for DataType:
ppPasteEnhancedMetafile which allows edition each of separate field of the table (rather pure solution)
ppPasteMetafilePicture similar option
ppPasteOLEObjectwhich you know
I can't see any other option.
I have connected Excel and Powerpoint via VBA to send values from the Excel sheet to the PPT.
All is working well except one thing: I need to transfer values from cells in Excel to text box shapes in ppt while preserving the number formatting from excel. How do I do that?
I do this for about 10 such boxes and my current code using copy from excel and paste in powerpoint, keeps on giving out of range error on random places.
Will paste the code I am using in a short while.
Try using the numberFormat from Excel when you bring over the Value.
Example:
With Workbooks(1).Sheets(1).Range("A1")
valueToPaste = Format(.Value, .NumberFormat)
End With
For the sake of the example, I'm pretending you are calling this from Excel and only want to know how to extract the value with it's format. We are using the first sheet of the first workbook in Range A1. It should be easy enough to update to your specific needs.
There are probably some exceptions, particularly for custom formats, but this should work for the majority of formats you would use in Excel.