I have a three worddokuments. The first hast the following structure:
Text
Hyperlink
Text
Hyperlink
I try to accomplish the following marcro: Open document 1, loop throu the hyperlinks. Open the hyperlinked documents and insert the text in the documents where the hyperlink in document 1 is.
What I accomplished yet is
Dim hLink As Hyperlink
Dim doc As Document
'Loop throu all hyperlinks
For Each hLink In ThisDocument.Hyperlinks
'Set objectref to document behind hyperlink
Set doc = Documents.Open(hLink.Address)
'AAAAnd Close it.
doc.Close
Next
My problem is, that I do not know how to put the text of the open document, where the hyperlink is and delete this hyperlink. For further puproses the document 1 has to be flexible so that the user can insert hyperlinks and the functionality of inserting is still working.
I thought of deleting the hyperlink and place a bookmark at the same position, name the bookmark, insert the text and delete the bookmark afterwards, but I do not get the hyperlink replaced by a bookmark. I found the hyperlink.Range.Bookmarks Property but no way to use it for my purposes. Anyone who can help me get this done?
Dim i As Long
For i = ThisDocument.Hyperlinks.Count To 1 Step -1
Dim link As Hyperlink, r As Range, addr As String
Set link = ThisDocument.Hyperlinks(i)
Set r = link.Range
addr = link.Address
link.Delete
r.InsertFile addr
Next
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I'm currently trying to program a CATIA macro to search through a specific text:"DD/MM/YYY" on a 2D CATIA drawing sheet and replace that same text with a user inputted text. (Basically to update the text box)
I'm currently new to VBA scripting language and have zero to no experience in doing this. I've researched extensively on this but found no codes close to achieving the problems that I am trying to solve.
Textbox contents to be replaced by user
what I wanted the CATIA macro to do
I'm quite sure that your date text string has a specific name in the title block, so search for that specific text string name and assign another value.
If you have a lot of drawings to do this task, you can do it in batch mode, open one by one drawings in a folder, replace the date, save drawing, close document...no input from designer, just assign the new date value inside your new macro.
This short snippet will search all Texts entities and try to replace with a fixed string:
Sub Catmain()
Dim oDoc As Document
Dim oView as DrawingView
Dim oText As DrawingTexts
Dim txt_to_src As String
Dim txt_to_place As String
Dim n As Integer
n = 0
Set oDoc = CATIA.ActiveDocument
Set oSheets = oDoc.Sheets
Set oViews = oSheets.ActiveSheet.Views
Set oView = oViews.ActiveView
Set oTexts = oView.Texts
txt_to_src = "STACK OVERFLOW."
txt_to_place = "REPLACED"
For Each srcText In oTexts
If srcText.Text = txt_to_src Then
srcText.Text = txt_to_place
n = n + 1
End If
Next
MsgBox n & " text frames have been replaced"
End Sub
This only searches all texts in the active view of the active sheet of the opened document.
Consider to use a more specific check criteria such Instr (check if a string is contained into another string), the equality used is just a representative check.
You'll probably need to cycle all views of a Sheet (i.e. all Items of oViews collection), and all Sheets of a document (i.e. all items of oSheets collection). Then extend to cycle all opened DrawingDocuments if you want.
Remember that an empty document with a title block already has 2 Views (background and Main) so if your drawing has, say, just 1 Front View, the script has to cycle through 3 views.
What I have:
An Excel file where in a column (actually it is free formatted but aligned to be within a column) some elements are embedded bmp pictures that show the formula =EMBED("Paint.Picture","") when you click on them. When you look at the Excel sheet, only the icon representing the picture is displayed, not the picture itself.
What I want:
The embedded picture (not the icon) copied to a new Word document.
The Code I have thus far:
'Image Objects
Dim myObjs As Shapes
Dim myObj As Shape
Set myObjs = ActiveSheet.Shapes
'Traversing objects
Dim row As Integer
Dim myRange As Range
Dim myRange2 As Range
Dim isAddressMatch As Boolean
'Word Document Objects
Dim wordApp As New Word.Application
Dim myWord As Word.Document
'Prepare word for output
Set myWord = wordApp.Documents.Add
wordApp.Visible = True
'Initalize traversing objectts
Set myRange = Sheets("myWorksheet").Range("Q5")
Set myRange2 = Sheets("myWorksheet").Range("E5")
row = 0
'Loop through range values in the desired column
While (myRange2.Offset(row).Value <> "")
'Loop through all shape objects until address match is found.
For Each myObj In myObjs
On Error Resume Next
isAddressMatch = (myObj.TopLeftCell.Address = myRange.Offset(row).Address)
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
isAddressMatch = False
On Error GoTo 0
End If
'When match is found copy the bmp picture from Excel to Word
If (isAddressMatch) Then
myObj.Select
''''''''This copies the excel default picture,'''''''''''''''
''''''''not the picture that is embeded.'''''''''''''''''''''
myObj.CopyPicture 'What is the correct way to copy myObj
myWord.Range.Paste
'Rest of the code not yet implement
End If
Next
row = row + 1
Wend
What happens when I run my code:
My code goes through all "shapes" that are within the bounds of the column and copies that objects picture. However, when I paste it into word, it literally made a copy of the link image (icon), and not the underlying embedded image.
What I've found thus far:
This code which shows me how to create an embedded object, but not how to copy one.
Update: Simpler solution
As specified in the comments by jspek, the image can actually be copied by using the Copy method of the OLEObject, e.g.:
Dim obj As OLEObject
Set obj = ActiveSheet.OLEObjects(myObj.Name)
'Copy the OLE object representing a picture.
obj.Copy
'Paste the picture in Word.
myWord.Range.Paste
Old solution
I've found a suboptimal solution that involves both the clipboard and SendKeys - inspired by this link. I'm quite convinced that you can do this more elegantly by exploring ways to extract the OLEObject's properties. Extracting these is beyond the scope of my expertise at this time of writing :-)
It revolves around OLEObject. This code executes the OLE object's host application (which is Paint in this case) of your picture, sends keys to copy the picture and finally, pastes it into Word.
'Get the OLE object matching the shape name.
Dim obj As OLEObject
Set obj = ActiveSheet.OLEObjects(myObj.Name)
'Activate the OLE host application.
obj.Activate
'Send CTRL+A to select the picture in Paint and CTRL+C to copy it.
Application.SendKeys "^a"
Application.SendKeys "^c"
'Paste the picture in Word.
myWord.Range.Paste
I am not a coder, but I found that if you "Define Name" for a cell range, you can do all kinds of things with the defined names. For example:
Linking Excel Workbook rows to a Word document
1. Open your Excel work book go to Formulas -> Define NAME
2. Create a "NAME" for each of the cells or groups of cells that you would like to link.
For example, I hyper-linked a Question # in a Word document to my Excel document that is used for importing questions into our Learning Management System. Example NAME = Question_22 and refers to cell range =WBT16DS058!$A$90 (=worksheet!cellrange)
3. Save & close Excel workbook.
4. Open the Word document and create your text (Question 022) , highlight and insert a hyperlink.
5. Browse & Select your Excel document, append the end of the address to include #NAME. (i.e. - R312Test.xlsx#Question_22).
6. Select the new link, and your Excel document will open to the cell range.
Because you are defining a NAME for the range of cells, the link will stay active even when the cells are moved around.
I am wondering if you used "Define Name" for your cell range that includes the picture you are trying to embed, you will have luck.
My apologies if you have already defined the cell range's name and tried this.
I have two documents, one which has all the info and it is a word document, and another that is an excel document, that have just some highlights from the word document.
I want to create some links between some selected text in word and excel cells, so far the special past is doing a great job, and create link in this format
=Word.Document.12|'C:\Users\...\xxx.docx'!'!OLE_LINK9'
Now i want to copy both documents in my usb and past them in other computers, this where the problem is, i would have to do the special past all over again since the path is different now, what i though as a solution was to put the path to the word document in cell let say A1 and concatenate the formula above, something like
=Word.Document.12|A1!'!OLE_LINK9'
but it doesnt work, it throws an error message, can you please help me?
PS : I would like to avoid vba if possible
PS : I would like to avoid vba if possible
I have included both ways to do it since the question is tagged with Excel-VBA as well :)
Take your pick.
VBA Way
Is this what you are trying?
Sub Sample()
Dim objOle As OLEObject
'~~> Change this to the respective Sheet name
With ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1")
'~~> This is your embedded word object
Set objOle = .OLEObjects("Object 1")
'~~> Cell A1 has a path like C:\Temp\
objOle.SourceName = "Word.Document.12|" & .Range("A1").Value & "xxx.docx!'"
End With
End Sub
Non VBA Way
Create a named range and call it say Filepath. Set the formula to
="Word.Document.12|'" & Sheet1!$A$1 & "xxx.docx'!'"
Where Cell A1 will have the file path.
Next Select your word document and in the formula bar, type =Filepath and you are done.
I am using a macro to populate a word document with text from named ranges in excel. The word document has bookmarks that correspond with the named excel ranges. I did not write the code, but rather copied it from another source.
There is quite a bit more to this macro than the snippet I posted. I could post the rest if that is useful. I had about half of my word document bookmarked and the macro was working fine then it suddenly stopped working.
I am receiving a error 1004 in the line highlighted below. I am a newbie so I'm not even quite sure what I should be searching for to fix this issue. Any assistance you could provide would be appreciated! Thanks in advance!
P.S. In case it's relevant, I am using Word and Excel 2007
'PASTE TEXT STRINGS LOOP
n = 1
For Each temp In BkmTxt
p = p + 1
Prompt = "Please wait. Copying text. Carrying out operation " & p & " of " & pcount & "."
Application.StatusBar = Prompt
'If The Bkmtxt(n) is empty then go to the next one, once that has been found do next operation.
If BkmTxt(n) = Empty Then
n = n + 1
'should find match and work
Else
'You might want to use multiple copies of the same text string.
'In this case you need to call the bookmark as follows: "ARTextWhatever_01"
'You can use as many bookmarks as you want.
BkmTxtSplit = Split(BkmTxt(n), "_")
vValue = Range(BkmTxtSplit(0)).Text **<----- ERROR HERE**
Set wdRng = wdApp.ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(BkmTxt(n)).Range
If Len(sFormat) = 0 Then
'replace the bookmark text
wdRng.Text = vValue
Else
'replace the bookmark text with formatted text
wdRng.Text = Format(vValue, sFormat)
End If
'Re-add the Bookmark
wdRng.Bookmarks.Add BkmTxt(n), wdRng
n = n + 1
End If
Next
Step 1: Don't copy code from external sources. Use external sources as a learning tool and try to understand what they are actually doing.
Now if I understand you correctly, you simply have an Excel sheet with named ranges, I assume they have information already within them, and a word document with bookmarks that EXACTLY match the named ranges:
Step 2: Make sure you have the word object library reference within excel
Here:
sub KeepItDoin()
dim xlRange as Excel.Range
dim wdApp as new Word.Application
dim wdDoc as Word.Document
dim wdBkm as Word.Bookmark
set wdDoc = wdApp.Documents.Open( "Filepath" ) 'get filepath from where ever
for each wdBkm in wdDoc.Bookmarks
set xlRange = Application.Range(wdBkm.Name)
wdBkm.range.text = xlRange.Value
next wdBkm
end sub
That will get you close probably (didn't test, don't care if it works. Use it to learn). The idea is that if the bookmarks match up to the range, we can use their names to find the ranges in excel and then tell excel to move the data within it into the bookmarks range.
You will likely need to add some formatting or maybe create a table and then move cell by cell in the range and fill the table but this is as close as I'm willing to get since you like to copy pasta.
In case anyone is interested, I figured it out. There was an error with the bookmarks I inserted into my Word document. This macro returns Error 1004 if the word document contains a bookmark that does not correspond to a range in excel. Thank you for your help.
H ey folks,
I've assembled the following code, which copies the first table in my Word document and inserts it at a bookmark position and also adds a formated heading above it via a second bookmark.
To fully automate my Excel application however, I need an advanced functionality of my code. After an insertion was done, the bookmarks have to be relocated to a position directly above the newly inserted table / heading.
Is it possible to relocate these bookmarks programmatically?
Any help is much appreciated.
Best regards,
daZza
Code:
Sub Main()
Dim doc As Word.document
Set doc = GetObject("xxxx.docx")
doc.Tables(1).Range.Copy
doc.bookmarks("AH_Tab").Range.Paste
doc.bookmarks("AH_Header").Range.Text = "Test"
doc.bookmarks("AH_Header").Range.Style = wdStyleHeading1
End Sub
Add the following code before End Sub
Dim tmpRng As Range
Set tmpRng = doc.Bookmarks("AH_Header").Range
doc.Bookmarks.Add "AH_Header", ActiveDocument.Range(tmpRng.Start - 1, tmpRng.Start - 1)
Additional information:
do the same for second bookmark
by changing -1 values you can expand
& move the range where exactly the new bookmark should be placed