I want to find a string in a word document and delete everything after it.
What is the best way to do this without using the Selection object?
Use a Range object instead. Straight outta the Word 2003 help:
If you've gotten to the Find object
from the Range object, the selection
isn't changed when text matching the
find criteria is found, but the Range
object is redefined. The following
example locates the first occurrence
of the word "blue" in the active
document. If "blue" is found in the
document, myRange is redefined
Set myRange = ActiveDocument.Content
myRange.Find.Execute FindText:="blue", _
Forward:=True
If myRange.Find.Found = True Then
Now use the SetRange method of that Range object to make the start of the range be the next character after the end of the string you searched for and make the end of the range be the end of the document:
myRange.SetRange (myRange.End + 1), ActiveDocument.Content.End
(TODO: You'll need to deal with the case when your string is the last thing in the document)
To delete the contents:
myRange.Delete
Related
I've changed balloon comments to footnotes, taking the author's name too. I need the author's name to be in bold but I can't get my code to read the footnotes. My problem is in setting : oFootnote
I've tried calling on the strAuthor and making that bold but because it is no longer a comment.author I can no longer set it as it's now in the footnote. I've tried many examples on the internet but I just can't get them to work:
StackOverflow's How do i make a string bold; Insert bold text into Word using VBA
also
Set oFootnote = oDoc.Footnotes.Add(Range:=Selection.Range, Text:="Some text")
I am a trainee so please don't judge me too harshly
'Convert comments to footnotes with Author name in bold
Dim i As Long
Dim oDoc As Document
dim oComment as Comments
Dim oFootnote As Footnotes
'Document is the ActiveDocument
Set oDoc = Application.ActiveDocument
'the author's name needs to be bold (the last two words in each footnote)
Set oFootnote = oDoc.Footnotes
With oFootnote
Selection.Range.Words.Last.Words (2)
'Make the last two words bold'
With Selection.Find
.Text = ""
.Replacement.Text = ""
.Font.bold = True
End With
End With
Selection.Find.Execute
'Set oFootnote = Nothing
Next
I tried
Set oFootnote = oDoc.Footnotes Range:=Selection.Words.Last.Words(2)
but it doesn't like "Range:= onwards" so I did
Selection.Range.Words.Last.Words (2) invalid use of a property
There is usually more than one way to achieve something like this, but the key is usually to work with a dedicated Range object.
In the code below, that bases on the code in the question, the Range object is assigned to each individual Footnote object in a loop of the Footnotes. It is then collapsed to its end-point and the start extended backwards by two words. (To better understand how this works, think of selecting the footnote, pressing right-arrow, then pressing ctrl+shift+left arrow twice to select the last two words.)
Dim oDoc As Document
Dim oFootnotes As Footnotes
Dim Ftnote As Footnote
Dim rngFootnote As Word.Range
'Document is the ActiveDocument
Set oDoc = Application.ActiveDocument
'the author's name needs to be bold (the last two words in each footnote)
Set oFootnotes = oDoc.Footnotes
For Each Ftnote In oFootnotes
Set rngFootnote = Ftnote.Range
rngFootnote.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
rngFootnote.MoveStart wdWord, -2
rngFootnote.Font.Bold = True
Next
Note that the reason for one of the errors in the question is because Words.Last returns a Range object containing the last word. Since it contains only one word - the last - Words(2) can't find anything it can work with.
The reason for the other error is that it's not possible to assign a Range to a Footnote or Footnotes object. They're different things, entirely...
Not super familiar with word objects, but try this. Worked for my couple of tests.
Basically it loops through all foot notes. And uses the index of the word to set that word's bold property to true.
Sub Test()
Dim oFootNote As Footnote
Dim oLastIndex As Long
For Each oFootNote In ActiveDocument.Footnotes
oLastIndex = oFootNote.Range.Words.Count
If oLastIndex > 2 Then
oFootNote.Range.Words(oLastIndex).Bold = True
oFootNote.Range.Words(oLastIndex - 1).Bold = True
End If
Next
End Sub
I am trying to create a Word macro that will go through a large document that I have and add the text "SAMPLE" to the beginning of every paragraph.
The document contains a Title page, Table of Contents and Headings throughout and I would prefer none of these have the "SAMPLE" text on them, just the paragraphs.
Below is some macro code I have found on various sites and kind of pieced together to do somewhat of what I want. It does place the "SAMPLE" text at the beginning of some paragraphs but not all, usually only the first paragraph of a new section within my document. And it also places it at the end of the Table of Contents and Beginning of the Title page.
I am brand new to macros in Word so any help is appreciated or if there is a better way of doing this perhaps? There might even be some unnecessary bits in this code since it is pieced together from other samples.
Sub SAMPLE()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim Par As Paragraph, Rng As Range
For Each Par In ActiveDocument.Paragraphs
If Par.Style = "Normal" Then
If Rng Is Nothing Then
Set Rng = Par.Range
Else
Rng.End = Par.Range.End
End If
Else
Call RngFmt(Rng)
End If
If Par.Range.End = ActiveDocument.Range.End Then
Call RngFmt(Rng)
End If
Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
Sub RngFmt(Rng As Range)
If Not Rng Is Nothing Then
With Rng
.End = .End - 1
.InsertBefore "SAMPLE"
End With
Set Rng = Nothing
End If
End Sub
Provided your Title, Table of Contents and Headings etc. don't use the Normal Style - as they shouldn't - you really don't need a macro for this - all you need is a wildcard Find/Replace where:
Find = [!^13]*^13
Replace = SAMPLE: ^&
and you specify the Normal Style as a Find formatting parameter. You could, of course, record the above as a macro, but that seems overkill unless you're doing this often.
I have many occasions that I have to copy article from web-page, paste to word and format in a certain way. I had this code to auto paste and format. However, it only work once, and it just doesn't change the font of the pasted article later on.
Sub Macro1()
Dim artic As Word.Range
Set artic = Selection.Range
'keep bold word bold and avoid paragraphs to cluster into one
artic.PasteAndFormat (wdFormatOriginalFormatting)
'paste and select pasted article
artic.Select
artic.Font.Name = "Calibri"
artic.Font.Size = 10.5
artic.Font.Italic = False
artic.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphLeft
End Sub
If you set a breakpoint at artic.Font.Name = "Calibri" so that the code stops after artic.Select you'll see that the Paste method does not include what's been pasted. Generally, artic will be at the beginning of the pasted content.
This means the code needs to be able to locate the position just after where the Selection was before pasting. It also depends on whether the paste occurs at the end of the document, or not.
The following sample code worked for me in my tests. It uses two Ranges: one for where the content will be pasted, the other for the end position after pasting.
(Responding to request for more clarification about the Word object model): Think of a Range object like a selection, with the difference that there can be many Range objects, but only one Selection. When manipulating a Range it often helps to think of using the keyboard to reduce or expand it. Pressing the left- or right-arrow keys will "collapse" a selection to an insertion point; holding Shift and pressing these keys will expand/reduce a selection; holding Shift while clicking somewhere else in the document will also do that. Think of setting Range.Start or Range.End as the equivalent of this last. The start or end point of the Range is being arbitrarily set to another location in the document.
In the case of the first If in the code below the Range is being reduced/collapsed to its starting point (think left-arrow key), then moved one character to the right (think right-arrow key). This puts it beyond where new material will be pasted, so extending the paste point's end to this Range's starting point will pick up everything between the two.
Sub TestPasteAndSelect()
Dim artic As Word.Range, rng As Word.Range
Dim bNotAtEnd As Boolean
Set artic = Selection.Range
Set rng = artic.Duplicate
rng.End = ActiveDocument.content.End
If rng.Characters.Count > 1 Then
'selection is not at end of document
rng.Collapse wdCollapseStart
rng.MoveStart wdCharacter, 1
bNotAtEnd = True
End If
'keep bold word bold and avoid paragraphs to cluster into one
artic.PasteAndFormat (wdFormatOriginalFormatting)
'paste and select pasted article
'artic.Select
'rng.Select
If bNotAtEnd Then
artic.End = rng.Start
Else
Set artic = rng.Duplicate
End If
artic.Font.Name = "Calibri"
artic.Font.Size = 10.5
artic.Font.Italic = False
artic.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphLeft
End Sub
I've got a Word document with a section surrounded by hidden text tags < Answers > ...some tables... < /Answers >. A Word macro can return the range of the text between these tags (used to be bookmarks but they had to go).
What I want to do from Excel is open the Word document, get the range between the tags, iterate the tables in that block and retrieve some cells from each row. Those cell data is then written in some rows on a new Excel sheet.
I saw many Word/Excel automation but none that inspired me to retrieve that range between two pieces of text. Best would be to be able to run the Word macro RetrieveRange(strTagName, rngTextBlock) in Word to return the range in rngTextBlock for "Answers" but this seems impossible.
As background: the .docm file is an exam paper with answers and maximum points that I 'd like to transfer into Excel to contain gradings for each student.
Browsing though some more sites, I encountered a C# example that partly did what I needed: rather than using Word's SELECTION stick to ranges to find something. I now can find the text block between the two tags, but still fail on traversing its tables and table rows. No compiler error (and working in Word itself) but I must be missing an external link...
Function CreateSEWorksheet() As Boolean
' Find <ANSWERS> in Word Document, and traverse all tables and write them as rows in worksheet
Dim wdrngStart As Word.Range
Dim wdrngEnd As Word.Range
Dim wdrngAnswers As Word.Range
Dim wdTable As Word.Table
Dim wdRow As Word.Row
Dim strStr As String
Dim bGoOn As Boolean
' Following set elsewhere:
' Set WDApp = GetObject(class:="Application.Word")
' Set WDDoc = WDApp.Documents.Open(filename:="filespec", visible:=True)
Set wdrngStart = WDDoc.Range ' select entire document - will shrink later
Set wdrngEnd = WDDoc.Range
Set wdrngAnswers = WDDoc.Range
' don't use Word SELECT/SELECTION but use ranges instead when finding tags.
If wdrngStart.Find.Execute(findText:="<ANSWERS>", MatchCase:=False) Then
' found!
wdrngAnswers.Start = wdrngStart.End
If wdrngEnd.Find.Execute(findText:="</ANSWERS>", MatchCase:=False) Then
wdrngAnswers.End = wdrngEnd.Start
bGoOn = True
Else
' no closing tag found
bGoOn = False
End If
Else
'no opening tag found
bGoOn = False
End If
If bGoOn Then
For Each wdTable In wdrngAnswers.Tables
' ** below doesn't work anymore: object doesn't support this method **
For Each wdRow In wdTable
' as example, take column 4 of each row
strStr = wdRow.Cells(4).Range.Text
strStr = Left(strStr, Len(strStr) - 2) ' remove end of cell markers
Debug.Print strStr
Next
Next
CreateSEWorksheet = True
Else
CreateSEWorksheet = False
End If
End Function
OP Update:
Thanks for the code KazJaw, it prompted me to change the approach I am trying to tackle the problem with. This is my current code:
Sub Method3()
Dim intFieldCount As Integer
Dim i As Integer
Dim vSt1 As String
intFieldCount = ActiveDocument.Fields.Count
For i = 1 To intFieldCount
ActiveDocument.Fields(i).Select 'selects the first field in the doc
Selection.Expand
vSt1 = Selection.Fields(1).Code
'MsgBox vSt1
vSt1 = Split(vSt1, " ")(2) 'Find out what the (2) does
MsgBox vSt1
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(vSt1).Select 'Selects the current crossreference in the ref list
Next i
End Sub
Ok the so the Code currently finds the first field in the document, reads its field code and then jumps to the location in the document to mimic a CTRL+Click.
However, It does this for all types of fields Bookmarks, endnotes, figures, tables etc. I only want to find Reference fields. I thought I could deduce this from the field code but it turns out figures and bookmarks use the same field code layout ie.
A Reference/Boookmark has a field code {REF_REF4123123214\h}
A Figure cross ref has the field code {REF_REF407133655\h}
Is there an effective way to get VBA to distinguish between the two? I was thinking as reference fields in the document are written as (Reference 1) I could find the field and then string compare the word on the left to see if it says "Reference".
I was thinking of using the MoveLeft Method to do this
Selection.MoveLeft
But I can't work out how to move left 1 word from the current selection and select that word instead to do the strcomp
Or perhaps I can check the field type? with...
If Selection.Type = wdFieldRef Then
Do Something
End If
But I am not sure which "Type" i should be looking for.
Any advice is appreciated
All REF fields "reference" bookmarks. Word sets bookmarks on all objects that get a reference for a REF field: figures, headings, etc. There's no way to distinguish from the content of the field what's at the other end. You need to "inspect" that target, which you can do without actually selecting it. For example, you could check whether the first six letters are "Figure".
The code you have is inefficient - there's no need to use the Selection object to get the field code. The following is more efficient:
Sub Method3()
Dim fld As Word.Field
Dim rng as Word.Range
Dim vSt1 As String
ForEach fld in ActiveDocument.Fields
vSt1 = fld.Code
'MsgBox vSt1
vSt1 = Split(vSt1, " ")(2) 'Find out what the (2) does
MsgBox vSt1
Set rng = ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(vSt1).Range
If Left(rng.Text, 6) <> "Figure" Then
rng.Select
End If
Next
End Sub