I have a word document that is littered with hyperlinks. The links themselves work fine, but for some reason, most of them are not blue anymore! All I'm really looking to do is try to find a way to use a macro or something to go through the document and add the "Hyperlink" style format to each hyperlink.
I tried to edit some macro code myself (one that changes all the links URLs), but I keep making the problem worse! I used to be good at VBScript, but it's been ages since then.
Any easy solution that doesn't involve manually changing each style?
As a side note, all of them currently are in "Normal" style, for some reason.
Try to execute this VBA script (best in debugging mode using the F8 key - have VBA and Word windows side by side so you can see what's happening):
Sub FormatLinks()
Dim H As Hyperlink
For Each H In ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks
H.Range.Select ' (A)
Selection.ClearFormatting ' (B)
H.Range.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles("Hyperlink") ' (C)
Next H
End Sub
This will
cycle through all hyperlinks in your document (A),
remove any formatting on the underlying text (B) and
assign the undrelying text to style "Hyperlink" (C)
(C) is not strictly necessary, as (B) should already sanitize your document, but maybe better to have hyperlinks really assigned to style "Hyperlink" because you may want to change the style later on.
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A little backstory. I work at an organization that uses Mail Merge and SQL Databases to populate letters with names/addresses. Those letters are sent out to our donors as thank yous. These letters change frequently, and new ones come up at least 10 times a month.
To simplify our process, I created a program that allows you to copy/paste the letter body content into rich text boxes and when you press the 'Go' button, it opens a pre-made Word template and replaces bookmarks in the template with the copied body content.
The program works great with most letters, but some of them have a problem where these thick black lines are created and I'm unable to do ANYTHING to remove them. I can't right click them, I can't delete them with Backspace or Delete, and I can't highlight them.
I'm thinking that the problem may come from hidden formatting. Some of the employees that write the letters are using the Mac version of Office 2016, and I'm using Windows version. I sent an RTF file that showed the black lines for me to someone who uses the Mac version, and they said they couldn't see the lines.
My question is, is there a way to get rid of these lines or prevent them in the future? I've thought about upgrading Office version to 2019 on both ends, but there are quite a few people that have their hands in these letters and it may be difficult to upgrade everyone.
Please refer to the attached image for visual reference. Names and personal details have been removed.
EDIT: Here is the 'Go' code:
'create temp rtf files to maintain rtf
If strForm = "ANG2" Then
txtPreD.SaveFile("\\server\AcknowledgementLetters\fptemp.rtf")
txtPostD.SaveFile("\\server\AcknowledgementLetters\bptemp.rtf")
ElseIf strForm = "ANGL" Then
txtPreD.SaveFile("\\server\AcknowledgementLetters\predtemp.rtf")
txtPostD.SaveFile("\\server\AcknowledgementLetters\postdtemp.rtf")
txtBP.SaveFile("\\server\AcknowledgementLetters\bptemp.rtf")
Else
txtPreD.SaveFile("\\server\AcknowledgementLetters\predtemp.rtf")
txtPostD.SaveFile("\\server\AcknowledgementLetters\postdtemp.rtf")
End If
'if bookmarks exists, insert appropriate rtf files
If odoc.Bookmarks.Exists("fp") = True Then
goWord.ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("fp").Select()
goWord.Selection.InsertFile(FileName:="\\server\AcknowledgementLetters\fptemp.rtf")
End If
If odoc.Bookmarks.Exists("bp") = True Then
goWord.ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("bp").Select()
goWord.Selection.InsertFile(FileName:="\\server\AcknowledgementLetters\bptemp.rtf")
End If
If odoc.Bookmarks.Exists("PreD") = True Then
goWord.ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("PreD").Select()
goWord.Selection.InsertFile(FileName:="\\server\AcknowledgementLetters\predtemp.rtf")
End If
If odoc.Bookmarks.Exists("PostD") = True Then
goWord.ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("PostD").Select()
goWord.Selection.InsertFile(FileName:="\\server\AcknowledgementLetters\postdtemp.rtf")
End If
Before this happens, the program checks to see which template it needs to open and opens it as a Word object (odoc). This bit of code is really the only important part. After this, I just click Finish it just saves the file once I'm done checking it for errors. Also, yes, the RTF files that it creates DO have the black lines as well. Here is another picture of the program itself just so you can get a better idea of what's going on.
I have a word document with automatic numbering and bulleting.
I have selected the text where I need to convert automating numbering and/or bulleting to normal text.
In addition I need to keep both the formatting and numbers/bullets of the selected text.
What I have already tried:
cut the paragraphs and special pasted them (but it breaks formatting);
unpressed the "numbering"/"bulleting" button (but it erases all numbers and bullets);
used VBA-macro (but it returns an error):
Code (error, method or data member not found):
Sub convertNumbersAndBulletsToText()
Selection.ConvertNumbersToText
End Sub
What would you recommend me to do in order to keep both formatting and numbers/bullets?
You have practically done everything yourself!
This code will work:
Sub convertNumbersAndBulletsToText()
Selection.Range.ListFormat.ConvertNumbersToText
End Sub
Your example returns error because ConvertNumbersToText method doesn't work with Selection. It works with Range!
(look here: Change selected automatic numbered list to plain text in word)
Beware!
If you want to carry out many changes, you may find it easier to make them with ActiveDocument (look below).
But if want to do it manually (or through a loop),
then you'd better loop from the last element you want to convert till the first one
(not vice versa, because auto-numbers would then increment by one all the time)!
Small Tips
Personally I would recommend you to use this code instead:
Sub convertNumbersAndBulletsToText()
Dim myRange As Range
Set myRange = Selection.Range
myRange.ListFormat.ConvertNumbersToText
End Sub
Why this one? It is a little bit more flexible! Instead of Selection.Range you could use any other type of Range (ActiveDocument, ActiveDocument.Paragraphs, myRange.SetRange etc)
Here are some links from msdn to give you basic examples of Ranges: 1) Range Object (Word) (msdn), 2)
Range.SetRange Method (Word) (msdn).
Just for your information, you don't need to save VBA if you don't want to. You can use Immediate Window to launch VBA.
Press alt+f11 (VBA-editor), then ctrl+g (Immediate Window).
Paste the code bellow, press enter.
Voilà!
Code (for Immediate Window):
ActiveDocument.ConvertNumbersToText
(It converts auto-numbers and auto-bullets to normal numbers and bullets everywhere in ActiveDocument).
The result of any VBA here would be number+tab+text. If you want to have number+space+text you can:
either at the very end replace (press ctrl+h) this one .^t (dot and tab) for . (dot and whitespace),
or at the very beginning 1) select the list, 2) right click on it, 3) click "Adjuct list idents", 4) click "Follow number with: Space". (Look here: Adjust the spacing for a single list item (support.office))
You may need to have a leading zero in (auto-)numbering, then you can press ctrl+f9, write SEQ MyList \# "000" inside curly brackets, press alt+f9 to finish (look here: Insert fields in Word (support.office)). But this goes beyond the question, though you may find word fields really useful in some cases.
To sum up:
You can replace both bullets and numbers for plain text in Word:
for Selection (look above);
for ActiveDocument (look above);
with a Range (examples in msdn);
with a loop (examples are welcomed). But bear in mind that you are to loop from the end of the document to the beginning.
VBA Noob here. I take my python programming notes in a word document since I can import images into it and align/format text quickly. Any code pasted into this document comes up as a spelling error. I'm trying to find a way to ignore spelling errors within a selected text area so I don't have to deal with ignoring each spelling error line of code individually. I don't want to turn off spell check in the document.
Ideally, I'd able to write a macro that read:
Selection.ShowSpellingErrors = True
but ShowSpellingErrors() can only be used with ActiveDocument. I was able to a record a macro that ignored spelling errors with:
Selection.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS
Selection.NoProofing = True
However, any new text I type into this also doesn't get proofed, which is something I don't want. I want to be able to write new text and see any errors I make. Thanks for any help!
Not a VBA Macro, but I think this answer may be relevant to your problem anyway.
Try creating a style for code which does not include spell check. Anything with this style does not get spell checked, while the rest of the document does. Sometimes I find the code shows the red underline, but if you run spell check it should just disappear without needing to be 'fixed'.
Create a new style, in the modify formatting dialog, go to Format > Language:
Tick the 'Do not check spelling or grammar' checkbox:
Highlight your code and use the new style. Any text not in this style will still be spellchecked:
I'm trying to do something with a multiple selection. I wanna add some text before every selected paragraph but, when I select multiple discontinuous paragraphs, if I do Selection.Paragraphs.Count I always get "1".
How could I work with all paragraphs apart?
Example:
Paragraph1(Selected first)
Paragraph2
Paragraph3(Selected second)
What I got when I try to add some text at the beginning of these paragraphs:
Paragraph1
Paragraph2
TEXTParagraph3
What I really want to obtain:
TEXTParagraph1
Paragraph2
TEXTParagraph3
I'm working like this:
sub x()
dim p as paragraph
for each p in selection.paragraphs
p.range.insertbefore("TEXT")
next
End sub
Word simply cannot do what you'd like for it to do. Developers have wished for this since multiple selections were introduced in 2003 (I think it was, might have been version 2007). Word's object model simply does not support it.
If this is something you want to provide to the user to make life easier you'll need to give the tool a way to mark the paragraphs so your code can recognize them. You could provide a macro, for example, that assigns an incrementing bookmark name to each selection (the user selects, then runs your macro; repeat for each paragraph). Your code can then address each bookmark and perform the actions. To make this more user friendly you can assign the macro to a keyboard shortcut and/or a button in the Ribbon/QAT and/or the right-click menu.
I'd like to be able to create a page element which I can feed text and it will form itself into the preferred layout. For instance:
{MACRO DocumentIntro("Introduction to Business Studies", "FP015", "Teachers' Guide")}
with that as a field, the output should be a line, the first two strings a certain size and font, centred, another line and then the third string fonted, sized and centred.
I know that's sort of TeX-like and perhaps beyond the scope of VBA, but if anyone's got any idea how it might be possible, please tell!
EDIT:
Ok, if I put the required information into Keyword, as part of the document properties, with some kind of unique separator, then that gets that info in, and the info will be unique to each document. Next one puts a bookmark where the stuff is going to be displayed. Then one creates an AutoOpen macro that goes to that bookmark, pulls the relevants out of the keywords, and forms the text appropriately into the bookmark's .Selection.
Is that feasible?
You're certainly on the right track here for a coding solution. However, there is a simpler way with no code - this is the type of scenario that Content Controls in Word 2007 were built for and with Fields/Properties, you can bind to content controls (CC). These CC can hold styles (like centered, bold, etc.). No VBA required.
The very easiest thing to do is to pick 3 built-in document properties that you will always want these to be. For example, "Title" could be your first string, "Subject" your second string and "Keywords" your third. Then, just go to the Insert ribbon, Quick Parts, Document Properties and insert, place and format those how you like. Then go to Word's start button (the orb thingy) and then under Prepare choose Properties. Here you can type, for example "Introduction to Business Studies", into the Title box and then just deselect it somehow (like click in another box). The Content Control for Title will be filled in automatically with your text.
If you want to use this for multiple files, just create this file as a .dotx (after CC insertion/placement/formatting and before updating the Document Properties' text). Then every time all you'll have to do is set these three properties with each new file.
Well, yes, it did turn out to be feasible.
Sub autoopen()
Dim sKeywords As String
sKeywords = ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties(4)
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("foo").Select
Selection.Text = sKeywords
End Sub
Okay, I have some filling out to do, but at least the guts of it are there.