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
Related
I have a Word Document with about 100 pages and I want to print it page by page as I copied in in Word from TXT File. So the concept in TXT file page break was a line as shared below...
--------------------------------------------Continue on next page------------------------------------------------
Now I want to do some automation about this Page-Break in word because I can't make it manually. SO I want some VBA Script as MACROS to search this specific line and then add Page-Break after this.
So Is this possible via VBA as I tried and got no way in Word Toolbar Features and tried to use upper screenshot feature but it is only adding page-break after highlighted line.
Here is the MACRO that I tried to RUn and I wrote it by the help of other queries over Stack Overflow but it's not working...
Option Explicit
Public Sub FindAndAddPageBreak()
Dim WordApp As Word.Application
Dim MyWordDocument As Word.Document
Dim Counter As Long
Set WordApp = New Word.Application
Set MyWordDocument = Word.Application.Documents.Open("C:\test.docx")
For Counter = 1 To ActiveDocument.Sentences.Count
With MyWordDocument.Sentences(Counter)
If Left$(.Text, 11) = "--------------------------------------------Continue on next page------------------------------------------------" Then
Selection.InsertBreak Type:=wdSectionBreakContinuous
End If
End With
Next
End Sub
Alternative Solution:
Thanks to macropod for the hint via GUI. Search & Replace is the option but it is giving me only BEFORE not AFTER. SO what about AFTER?
All you need is a wildcard Find/Replace with:
Find = Continue on next page[!^13]#^13
Replace = ^&^12
I have big presentation (~300 slides) And i need to make few versions of it, each connected to diffrent excel file. I have code that changes links for all shapes inside prestations. Its all good for charts, but there is problem with linked tables. Source change is correct, but during this change range for table dissapires (range is set for 1st sheet cell A1).
Is there way to keep the range unchanged?
Additional question: changing chart source is very fast (<1s),whereas changing linked table source takes some time (~15s). This becomes a problem where there is a lot tables.
When i run code few times ~50 slides in one run it went well (took ~5-10min), but when i tried run it on all ~300 slides i waited for 30min and it didn't finish (there was no crush, it looked like procedure frozed). Im really curious why this problem occures.
Belowe code i use for link change:
Sub UpdateLinks()
Dim ExcelFile
Dim exl As Object
Set exl = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
'Open a dialog box to promt for the new source file.
ExcelFile = exl.Application.GetOpenFilename(, , "Select Excel File")
Dim i As Integer
Dim k As Integer
'Go through every slide
For i = 1 To ActivePresentation.Slides.Count
With ActivePresentation.Slides(i)
'Go through every shape on every slide
For k = 1 To .Shapes.Count
'Turn of error checking s that it doesn 't crash if the current shape doesn't already have a link
On Error Resume Next
'Set the source to be the same as teh file chosen in the opening dialog box
.Shapes(k).LinkFormat.SourceFullName = ExcelFile
If .Shapes(k).LinkFormat.SourceFullName = ExcelFile Then
'If the change was successful then also set it to update automatically
.Shapes(k).LinkFormat.AutoUpdate = ppUpdateOptionAutomatic 'other option is ppUpdateOptionManual/ppUpdateOptionAutomatic
End If
On Error GoTo 0
Next k
End With
Next i
End Sub
All tips are welcome! :)
Have you looked at what .SourceFullName returns? Usually it's not just the file name but also further code that indicates what sheet and range within the sheet the link points to. It looks like you're changing that to just the name of the replacement Excel file.
Instead, try using Replace to substitute the name of the new Excel file for the name of the old Excel file in .SourceFullName. That'll leave the rest of the link text intact.
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 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.
Does anyone know how when programmatically iterating through a word document, you can tell if a paragraph forms part of a table of contents (or indeed, anything else that forms part of a field).
My reason for asking is that I have a VB program that is supposed to extract the first couple of paragraphs of substantive text from a document - it's doing so by iterating through the Word.Paragraphs collection. I don't want the results to include tables of contents or other fields, I only want stuff that a human being would recognize as a header, title or a normal text paragraph. However it turns out that if there's a table of contents, then not only the table of contents itself but EVERY line in the table of contents appears as a separate item in Word.Paragraphs. I don't want these but haven't been able to find any property on the Paragraph object that would allow me to distinguish and so ignore them (I'm guessing I need the solution to apply to other field types too, like table of figures and table of authorities, which I haven't yet actually encountered but I guess potentially would cause the same problem)
Because of the limitations in the Word object model I think the best way to achieve this would be to temporarily remove the TOC field code, iterate through the Word document, and then re-insert the TOC. In VBA, it would look like this:
Dim doc As Document
Dim fld As Field
Dim rng As Range
Set doc = ActiveDocument
For Each fld In doc.Fields
If fld.Type = wdFieldTOC Then
fld.Select
Selection.Collapse
Set rng = Selection.Range 'capture place to re-insert TOC later
fld.Cut
End If
Next
Iterate through the code to extract paragraphs and then
Selection.Range = rng
Selection.Paste
If you are coding in .NET this should translate pretty closely. Also, this should work for Word 2003 and earlier as is, but for Word 2007/2010 the TOC, depending on how it is created, sometimes has a Content Control-like region surrounding it that may require you to write additional detect and remove code.
This is not guaranteed, but if the standard Word styles are being used for the TOC (highly likely), and if no one has added their own style prefixed with "TOC", then it is OK. This is a crude approach, but workable.
Dim parCurrentParagraph As Paragraph
If Left(parCurrentParagraph.Format.Style.NameLocal, 3) = "TOC" Then
' Do something
End If
What you could do is create a custom style for each section of your document.
Custom styles in Word 2003 (not sure which version of Word you're using)
Then, when iterating through your paragraph collection you can check the .Style property and safely ignore it if it equals your TOCStyle.
I believe the same technique would work fine for Tables as well.
The following Function will return a Range object that begins after any Table of Contents or Table of Figures. You can then use the Paragraphs property of the returned Range:
Private Function GetMainTextRange() As Range
Dim toc As TableOfContents
Dim tof As TableOfFigures
Dim mainTextStart As Long
mainTextStart = 1
For Each toc In ActiveDocument.TablesOfContents
If toc.Range.End > mainTextStart Then
mainTextStart = toc.Range.End + 1
End If
Next
For Each tof In ActiveDocument.TablesOfFigures
If tof.Range.End > mainTextStart Then
mainTextStart = tof.Range.End + 1
End If
Next
Set GetMainTextRange = ActiveDocument.Range(mainTextStart, ActiveDocument.Range.End)
End Function