How do you copy VBA code into a Word document and retain the VBA editor color scheme?
You can use Notepad++ to accomplish this in three ways. Just so you know, Notepad++ is a more advanced version of Notepad, which supports syntax highlighting of different code files "out of the box" - Visual Basic included!
Download & install it, fire it up, and load up your VBA code. You should automatically see it beautifully coloured (if not, because the file extension is something other than .vb, go to Language -> VB or Language -> V -> VB).
If you need to change any of the colours, you can easily do so - just go to Settings -> Styler Configurator. From that menu, you can change the various highlighting and font options, to suit your needs - although the default usually suffices for most.
Then, go to Plugins -> NppExport. From there, you have three options you can consider:
Directly print from Notepad++
Copy all formats to clipboard
Export to RTF
Export to HTML
The first is self explanatory. The second one - "Copy all formats to clipboard" - will copy the entire file with the highlighted syntax to the clipboard. Once you click it, then open Microsoft Word or your other favourite document editor, and just hit paste! You should see the beautifully syntax-highlighted code. If something goes wrong, then you can try one of the other options (export to RTF/HTML), although I've never had a problem with the clipboard method.
There are two programs on cnet downloads, which are free to try. In case you did not try them, here are the links:
VB-VBA Code Formatter & Printer 2.2
VBAcodePrint 6.13.110
Smart Indenter could be what you're looking for? You'd load the result into Notepad++, set language to VB and save as .rtf/.doc (or print to file, can't remember off the top of my head).
For a more modern approach, Sublime Text users can install ExportHTML from Package Control. This has the added benefit of being able to include the line numbers, and changing the code coloration.
HTML files can be opened directly within Word.
Highlight supports a wide range of Operating Systems and 150+ languages including Visual Basic, although I'm not sure about VBA.
I would recommend this one: planetB
It works well with Internet Explorer (didn't work wit Firefox for me, not sure abt Chrome).
Plus it's online, so no need to install anything (the case of Company/University PC's)
Regards
Wheeliam
The following works with Visual Studio Code:
Start VS Code.
New file.
Copy & Paste the VBA code into the VS Code window.
In the lower right-hand corner, click on "Plain Text" and select "Visual Basic" instead. Note that the code is now syntax-highlighted.
Copy & Paste the formatted code into Word.
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In the red range, the font is different from the system font. The system font is Microsoft YaHei UI, but these parts of the font is SimSun.
Is there a way to change these parts of the font?
Or is there a way to beautify the VBA editor? VBA editor is not pretty.
Check out [Tools] -> [Options] -> [Editor Format] - in there you can set the fonts used for various elements of the VBE.
I have an alternative solution.
VBA editor is ugly and doesn't have good intellisense. In addition, VBA is not fast.
These are reasons to prompt me to use Python+xlwings.
When I can use Python, beautiful editor UI and good intellisense I can get easily.
The most important, Excel operations will be faster.(numpy, pandas, etc can be used)
I am using xlwings to make Python operating Excel.
From the pictures, do the same operation to Excel, Python+xlwings only need 4s, but VBA needs 31s.
So if someone can use a little Python, I recommend using Python+xlwings to operate excel.
The VBA editor UI is based on Windows system fonts. You need to edit the windows registry keys to make the required changes, see How to change the default font in Windows® 8.1
Is there a way to enable matplotlib/ipython so I can right click my plots (in Chrome) and copy then paste elsewhere such as MS Word etc?
I know I can code and save to image etc, but often when I am playing around investigating data it would be very useful to just copy / paste into a document for safekeeping and reports.
EDIT: Problem seems to be using MS Word (2010) and any dynamic image from any Browser (IE/Chrome), If I use other progs like Write it works okay. I found some advice to change the "Pasting from other programs" option in Word settings but it has no effect.
Also another article says the problem is based on the contents of the "HTML Format" format stored in the clipboard.
Guess I need to post this question elsewhere seems to be an MS Word issue!
If you control-shift right click, it'll return to the standard Chrome context menu instead of the iPython one.
EDIT: the below answer doesn't always work anymore (something changed I think), but there is another stack overflow question here with an answer that is working, namely using Ctrl+Alt+V to do a paste-special:
Jupyter Notebook: How to copy paste image into MS word?
A straight Ctrl+V will generally fail in MS Office for this purpose, but there is the "paste image" option which is what is working for me.
If you're using ipython notebook (which I guess you must be, since you're mentioning using Chrome), you can just right-click on your graph and choose Copy Image then paste into whatever software
Drag and drop worked for me using Chrome and MS Word on macOS.
Is there a simple way to copy syntax-coloured code block as rtf in intellij IDEA?
UPDATE: there is now a new plug-in for this: 'Copy' on steroids that is maintained by JetBrains.
There is no way to copy colored code block from IDEA directly.
A workaround is to use File | Export to HTML, then open HTML in a browser, then copy from the browser window and paste into Wordpad or MS Word.
Another and more faster way is to install the Copy as HTML plug-in in Settings | Plugins:
Copies a snippet of code as html
Adds menu items "Copy as HTML" to main menu and editor popup. Will copy the current selection or the complete editor buffer. Currently only works if focus is in editor (for example won't work in project tree).
Preserves more formatting than the built-in HTML export.
HTML is only a snippet (without html and body tags) meant to be inserted into a complete HTML document.
Currently HTML format is fixed and uses CSS a lot.
Options: unindent, add border, padding, line numbers, tabs to spaces conversion, include editor's warning and error highlighting (see IDE Settings -> Copy as HTML).
Reuses the editor "Show Line Numbers" setting (see Idea's "View" menu).
IntelliJ IDEA 15
By default, you can copy rich text from IntelliJ to Microsoft Word (for example).
This feature can be found in File > Settings... > Editor > General > Rich-text copy > Copy as rich text by default
You can also change the color scheme only for the copy-paste operation (your current scheme won't be affected).
Go to https://gist.github.com/
Copy code from IntelliJ to the new private gist;
Save it, copy colorful code from the browser to wherever you want;
Delete the gist.
Use external tool notepad++
1) copy code snippet to notepad++
2) apply syntax highlighting
3) copy with nppexport plugin to clipboard as rtf
If you're on a mac and like TextMate, here's a great way to copy styled code from TextMate: https://github.com/bblimke/copy-with-style-tmbundle
It's not as convenient as doing it directly from IntelliJ, but it's a bit more convenient than using gist or pastebin. Also, unlike the Copy as HTML Plugin for IntelliJ, this solution actually works at the time of this writing.
I am writing documentation about an app and want to explain the code.
I want to copy parts of the Objective C code from Xcode to Microsoft Word.
I don't know how to put the code with syntax highlighting (and maybe line numbers, too ?!) into Word.
Does anybody know a usable solution for this little problem?
Copy and paste works !
Nevertheless, make sure the option "Copy colors and fonts" in Preferences>Fonts & Colors is checked !
If you need this in Pages you can paste into textedit then copy/paste from textedit into pages. I have yet to find a way to paste directly into pages and preserve the text color etc
If you copy from Xcode and paste into Word you get syntax highlighting etc as expected. You just need to reduce the font size to make it more readable and avoid wrapping etc. It would probably be a good idea to define a suitable Style in Word, e.g. "Code" which would have the required font size etc for pasted code.
It supports these by default in Xcode 4. And what you need to do is to choose "Use Orignal Format" in Word or Power Point.
If you need this in Pages, then a workaround is to copy in Xcode, paste in Word, copy again and then paste in Pages (That is if you have MS Word available).
Is there a simple way to copy syntax-coloured code block as rtf in intellij IDEA?
UPDATE: there is now a new plug-in for this: 'Copy' on steroids that is maintained by JetBrains.
There is no way to copy colored code block from IDEA directly.
A workaround is to use File | Export to HTML, then open HTML in a browser, then copy from the browser window and paste into Wordpad or MS Word.
Another and more faster way is to install the Copy as HTML plug-in in Settings | Plugins:
Copies a snippet of code as html
Adds menu items "Copy as HTML" to main menu and editor popup. Will copy the current selection or the complete editor buffer. Currently only works if focus is in editor (for example won't work in project tree).
Preserves more formatting than the built-in HTML export.
HTML is only a snippet (without html and body tags) meant to be inserted into a complete HTML document.
Currently HTML format is fixed and uses CSS a lot.
Options: unindent, add border, padding, line numbers, tabs to spaces conversion, include editor's warning and error highlighting (see IDE Settings -> Copy as HTML).
Reuses the editor "Show Line Numbers" setting (see Idea's "View" menu).
IntelliJ IDEA 15
By default, you can copy rich text from IntelliJ to Microsoft Word (for example).
This feature can be found in File > Settings... > Editor > General > Rich-text copy > Copy as rich text by default
You can also change the color scheme only for the copy-paste operation (your current scheme won't be affected).
Go to https://gist.github.com/
Copy code from IntelliJ to the new private gist;
Save it, copy colorful code from the browser to wherever you want;
Delete the gist.
Use external tool notepad++
1) copy code snippet to notepad++
2) apply syntax highlighting
3) copy with nppexport plugin to clipboard as rtf
If you're on a mac and like TextMate, here's a great way to copy styled code from TextMate: https://github.com/bblimke/copy-with-style-tmbundle
It's not as convenient as doing it directly from IntelliJ, but it's a bit more convenient than using gist or pastebin. Also, unlike the Copy as HTML Plugin for IntelliJ, this solution actually works at the time of this writing.