I haven’t used VB for years, so please forgive me if this turns out to be obvious. I’m trying to write a word vba macro for use in a template which will display a userform and then import the contents of fileA.docx, fileB.docx, or fileC.docx depending on the userform. (After that I’m going to use bookmarks to fill in some form data, I don’t know if that’s relevant). Files A, B, and C will contain text with some basic formatting such as lists, but nothing fancy.
The solutions I’ve seen online can copy the contents of file to a new file, but ideally I would like to import the entirety of one of those files into the new, currently unnamed file that I’m getting from the template. I think where I’m running into problems is with switching the selection to one of those files, and then back to the new unnamed document, though I could use a hand to make sure I’m copying correctly as well.
Update: I was making things too hard, though the answers here got me pointed in the right direction (thanks!). In the end I just did
ThisDocument.Activate
Selection.InsertFile("fileA")
which gives me the raw dump of everything that I wanted.
This tutorial explains how you can copy content from one word document and paste it to another word document with VBA. This is one of the most common ask from stakeholder when you need to create a new MS word document daily or weekly which is a subset of the master document. If you do it manually, it’s a tedious task and chances of having error would be high. In the automated world we aim to automate our repetitive tasks as much as possible. As a request it looks easy but it’s a bit complex as you need to handle MS word from Excel and need to give instructions to system via VBA about the changes and interactivity you want to implement.
Table of Contents
Copy all headings to another document
The program below copies each text which is formatted in Heading 1
style and paste to a new word document. You need to make changes in the lines of code highlighted in red.
Sub CopyfromWord() ' Objects Dim wrdApp, objWord As Object Dim wrdDoc, newwrdDoc As Object Dim myPath As String, myPath1 As String Dim numberStart As Long Dim Rng, srchRng As Word.Range ' Close MS Word if it's already opened On Error Resume Next Set objWord = GetObject(, "Word.Application") If Not objWord Is Nothing Then objWord.Quit SaveChanges:=0 Set objWord = Nothing End If 'Open MS Word Set wrdApp = CreateObject("Word.Application") wrdApp.Visible = True ' Folder Location myPath = "C:UsersDELLDocumentsTest" ' Input File Set wrdDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Open(myPath & "PD Calibration.docx") ' Output File Set newwrdDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Add myPath1 = myPath & "newdoc1.docx" ' Text you want to search Dim FindWord As String Dim result As String FindWord = "" 'Style mystyle = "Heading 1" 'Defines selection for Word's find function wrdDoc.SelectAllEditableRanges ' Find Functionality in MS Word With wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Find .Text = FindWord .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = 1 .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False If mystyle <> "" Then .Style = mystyle End If End With ' Execute find method wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Find.Execute ' Store Selected text result = wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Text ' Check if result contains non-blank text If Len(result) > 1 Then ' ------------------------------------------------------------- ' Loop through multiple find content (Find All functionality) ' ------------------------------------------------------------- While wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Find.Found wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Copy 'Activate the new document newwrdDoc.Activate 'New Word Doc Set Rng = newwrdDoc.Content Rng.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd Rng.Paste 'Word Document wrdDoc.Activate wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Find.Execute Wend ' If style not found Else MsgBox "Text Not Found" End If 'Close and don't save application wrdDoc.Close SaveChanges:=False 'Save As New Word Document newwrdDoc.SaveAs myPath1 newwrdDoc.Close SaveChanges:=False 'Close all word documents wrdApp.Quit SaveChanges:=0 'Message when done MsgBox "Task Accomplished" End Sub
How to use the above program
- Open Excel Workbook
- Press ALT + F11 shortcut key to open visual basic editor (VBE)
- To insert a module, go to Insert > Module
- Paste the complete VBA script below
- Specify the path of folder in
myPath
variable. It is the folder location where your input word document file is stored. Make sure to mention backward slash at the end.myPath = "C:UsersDELLDocumentsTest"
- Specify file name of your input MS Word document
Set wrdDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Open(myPath & "PD Calibration.docx")
- File name you wish to have in your output file. New word doc will be saved with this name.
myPath1 = myPath & "newdoc1.docx"
- Type word(s) you want to seach in Find box. Keep it blank if you want to search by style only.
FindWord = ""
. - Specify style specific to your word document in
mystyle = "Heading 1"
.
How this program works
In this section we broken down the code into multiple snippets to make you understand how it works.
1. First we are closing word documents if any of them is already opened. It is to avoid conflict interacting Excel with Word. This is a useful technique in terms of error handling in the code as sometimes code may crash because of multiple word documents being opened at the same time.
On Error Resume Next Set objWord = GetObject(, "Word.Application") If Not objWord Is Nothing Then objWord.Quit SaveChanges:=0 Set objWord = Nothing End If
2. In this section of code we are opening the input word document.
'Open MS Word Set wrdApp = CreateObject("Word.Application") wrdApp.Visible = True ' Folder Location myPath = "C:UsersDELLDocumentsTest" ' Input File Set wrdDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Open(myPath & "PD Calibration.docx")
3. Here we are adding a new word document in which we want to copy the content.
Set newwrdDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Add myPath1 = myPath & "newdoc1.docx"
4. User need to mention the word or style he/she wants MS Word to look for.
' Text you want to search Dim FindWord As String Dim result As String FindWord = "" 'Style mystyle = "Heading 1"
5. This part of the VBA code refers to Find feature in MS Word. Many of us enable this functionality by hitting CTRL + F shortcut key. While ... Wend
is an alternative of Do While Loop. Here it is used to find all the words which are formatted as ‘Heading 1’ style. It is to find all the searched results in iterative manner. After copying the text it goes to the last filled content in the output doc and then paste the content after that.
With wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Find .Text = FindWord .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = 1 .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False If mystyle <> "" Then .Style = mystyle End If End With ' Execute find method selects the found text if found wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Find.Execute While wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Find.Found wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Copy 'Activate the new document newwrdDoc.Activate 'New Word Doc Set Rng = newwrdDoc.Content Rng.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd Rng.Paste 'Word Document wrdDoc.Activate wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Find.Execute Wend
6. Last thing which is extremely important is to save the files and close MS Word application. We are closing the input file without saving any changes but the output file is saved with all the changes we made.
'Close and don't save application wrdDoc.Close SaveChanges:=False 'Save As New Word Document newwrdDoc.SaveAs myPath1 newwrdDoc.Close SaveChanges:=False 'Close all word documents wrdApp.Quit SaveChanges:=0
Copy text from one word document to already created word document
Suppose you don’t want to create a new word document. Instead you wish to save it in the existing word doc you have. Assuming name of the output file is newdoc1.docx.
Replace this line of code Set newwrdDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Add
with the code below.
Set newwrdDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Open(myPath & "newdoc1.docx")
If you wish to save the file with the new name you can change in this line of code.
myPath1 = myPath & "newdoc1_updated.docx"
Find specific text and then copy the next 3 words or characters
Specify the word(s) you want to find in FindWord = "Text you wish to search"
and make style blank in
mystyle = ""
Replace this line of code wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Copy
with the code below.
Next 3 words
lngStart = wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.End wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdWord, Count:=3, Extend:=wdExtend wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd lngEnd = wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Start wrdDoc.Range(lngStart, lngEnd).Copy wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.EndOf
Next 3 Characters
lngStart = wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.End wrdDoc.Range(lngStart, lngStart + 3).Copy
If there are some spaces you may find the code extracts only 2 characters (or words) rather than 3 so you can increase the number from 3 to 4 in the code above
Copy text between two words
Suppose you wish to pull all the text between two words (or headings). In the code below you can specify the words in FindWord1
and FindWord2
variables.
Sub CopyBetweenTexts() ' Objects Dim wrdApp, objWord As Object Dim wrdDoc, newwrdDoc As Object Dim myPath As String, myPath1 As String Dim numberStart As Long Dim Rng, srchRng As Word.Range ' Close MS Word if it's already opened On Error Resume Next Set objWord = GetObject(, "Word.Application") If Not objWord Is Nothing Then objWord.Quit SaveChanges:=0 Set objWord = Nothing End If 'Open MS Word Set wrdApp = CreateObject("Word.Application") wrdApp.Visible = True ' Folder Location myPath = "C:UsersDELLDocumentsTest" ' Input File Set wrdDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Open(myPath & "PD Calibration.docx") ' Output File Set newwrdDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Add myPath1 = myPath & "newdoc1.docx" ' Text you want to search Dim FindWord1, FindWord2 As String Dim result As String FindWord1 = "Steps : PD Calibration" FindWord2 = "Test2 Steps : PD Calibration" 'Style mystyle = "" 'Defines selection for Word's find function wrdDoc.SelectAllEditableRanges ' Move your cursor to the start of the document wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.HomeKey unit:=wdStory 'Find Functionality in MS Word With wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Find .Text = FindWord1 .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = 1 .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False If mystyle <> "" Then .Style = mystyle End If If .Execute = False Then MsgBox "'Text' not found.", vbExclamation Exit Sub End If ' Locate after the ending paragraph mark (beginning of the next paragraph) ' wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd ' Starting character position of a selection lngStart = wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.End 'Set Selection.Start to include searched word .Text = FindWord2 .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = 1 .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False .Style = mystyle If .Execute = False Then MsgBox "'Text2' not found.", vbExclamation Exit Sub End If lngEnd = wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Start 'Set Selection.End to include searched word End With 'Copy Selection wrdDoc.Range(lngStart, lngEnd).Copy 'Activate the new document newwrdDoc.Activate 'New Word Doc Set Rng = newwrdDoc.Content Rng.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd Rng.Paste 'Word Document wrdDoc.Activate wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Find.Execute 'Close and don't save application wrdDoc.Close SaveChanges:=False 'Save As New Word Document newwrdDoc.SaveAs myPath1 newwrdDoc.Close SaveChanges:=False 'Close all word documents wrdApp.Quit SaveChanges:=0 'Message when done MsgBox "Task Accomplished" End Sub
Find multiple different texts and copy in loop
If you wish to extract content between a couple of texts in iterative manner and then copy them one by one in another word document.
Here we assume texts are stored in column B starting from cell B3. See the image below.
Sub CopyBetweenTexts2() ' Objects Dim wrdApp, objWord As Object Dim wrdDoc, newwrdDoc As Object Dim myPath As String, myPath1 As String Dim numberStart As Long Dim Rng, srchRng As Word.Range ' Close MS Word if it's already opened On Error Resume Next Set objWord = GetObject(, "Word.Application") If Not objWord Is Nothing Then objWord.Quit SaveChanges:=0 Set objWord = Nothing End If 'Open MS Word Set wrdApp = CreateObject("Word.Application") wrdApp.Visible = True ' Folder Location myPath = "C:UsersDELLDocumentsTest" ' Input File Set wrdDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Open(myPath & "PD Calibration.docx") ' Output File Set newwrdDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Add myPath1 = myPath & "newdoc1.docx" ' Text you want to search Dim FindWord1, FindWord2 As String Dim result As String ' Find last used cell in column B Dim last As Double With ActiveSheet last = .Cells(.Rows.Count, "B").End(xlUp).Row End With ' Loop through column B j = last - 2 For i = 1 To j FindWord1 = Cells(2 + i, 2).Value FindWord2 = Cells(3 + i, 2).Value 'Style mystyle = "" 'Defines selection for Word's find function wrdDoc.SelectAllEditableRanges ' Move your cursor to the start of the document wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.HomeKey unit:=wdStory 'Find Functionality in MS Word With wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Find .Text = FindWord1 .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = 1 .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False If mystyle <> "" Then .Style = mystyle End If If .Execute = False Then MsgBox "'Text' not found.", vbExclamation Exit Sub End If ' Locate after the ending paragraph mark (beginning of the next paragraph) ' wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd ' Starting character position of a selection lngStart = wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.End 'Set Selection.Start to include searched word .Text = FindWord2 .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = 1 .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False .Style = mystyle If .Execute = False Then MsgBox "'Text2' not found.", vbExclamation Exit Sub End If lngEnd = wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Start 'Set Selection.End to include searched word End With If (i = j) Then wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.EndOf wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.EndKey unit:=wdStory lngEnd = wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.End End If 'Copy Selection wrdDoc.Range(lngStart, lngEnd).Copy 'Activate the new document newwrdDoc.Activate 'New Word Doc Set Rng = newwrdDoc.Content Rng.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd Rng.Paste Next i 'Word Document wrdDoc.Activate wrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Find.Execute 'Close and don't save application wrdDoc.Close SaveChanges:=False 'Save As New Word Document newwrdDoc.SaveAs myPath1 newwrdDoc.Close SaveChanges:=False 'Close all word documents wrdApp.Quit SaveChanges:=0 'Message when done MsgBox "Task Accomplished" End Sub
Find Text and Replace All
Suppose you want to find a specific text and replace it with some text. If a text has more than 1 occurence, it should be dealt with. In other words, Replace All functionality should be enabled. Here we are replacing it in the output document after copying from input word document. Add the code below after line Next i
. Specify text in .Text = and .Replacement.Text =
'Replace All Name newwrdDoc.Activate With newwrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Find .Text = "Text 1" .Replacement.Text = "Text 2" .Forward = True .Wrap = 1 .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With newwrdDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
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Sub Макрос()
Dim ворд As Object, док As Object
Dim var
‘1. Запуск ворда.
Set ворд = CreateObject(Class:=»Word.Application»)
‘2. Открытие ворд-файла.
var = «C:UsersUserDesktopИсточник.docx»
Set док = ворд.Documents.Open(Filename:=var)
‘3. Копирование всего содержимого ворд-файла.
док.Range.Copy
‘4. Перемещение курсора-рамки в A1.
Range(«A1»).Select
‘5. Вставка скопированного в эксель на активный лист в активную ячейку.
ActiveSheet.PasteSpecial Format:=»HTML», Link:=False, DisplayAsIcon:=False
‘6. Очистка буфера обмена, чтобы во время закрытия экселя не было
‘ сообщения, предлагающего сохранить содержимое буфера обмена.
‘ Для этого в буфер копируется первый символ из ворд-файла.
док.Range.Characters(1).Copy
‘7. Закрытие ворд-файла и ворда.
док.Close SaveChanges:=False
ворд.Quit
End Sub
[свернуть]
Код |
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Sub Zapusk_Word_iz_Excel_02() Dim objWrdApp As Object Dim objWrdDoc As Object Dim text As Object On Error Resume Next Set objWrdApp = GetObject(, "Word.Application") If objWrdApp Is Nothing Then Set objWrdApp = CreateObject("Word.Application") Set objWrdDoc = objWrdApp.Documents.Open("D:WorkMKTANL.RTF") objWrdApp.Visible = True End If Set objWrdDoc = objWrdApp.Documents.Open("D:WorkMKTANL.RTF") Set text = objWrdDoc.Content Set objWrdDoc = Nothing Set objWrdApp = Nothing End Sub |
Как выгрузить эту бяку на лист в ексель не пойму
Скопировать нужно все из Word и в ставить на лист, но не в одну ячейку.
Изменено: Сергей Беляев — 02.02.2017 13:47:55
The following code should output to .csv file.
Note! First, please add reference to the Microsoft Scripting Runtime dll (scrrun.dll):
From the VBA window Tools->References->Check Microsoft Scripting Runtime dll
Here is the code that works (you can create macro and place the code inside it):
Dim wordsArray, arrayElement
Dim delimiter As String
Dim fileName As String
Dim fso As FileSystemObject
Dim outputFile As textStream
'select all document's content
ActiveDocument.Select
'provide delimiter
delimiter = InputBox("Please enter delimiter to use")
'split the selected content and place it inside the array
wordsArray = Split(Selection.Text, delimiter)
'generate output file name
fileName = "C:Output.csv"
'create new FileSystem object and open text stream to write to
Set fs = New FileSystemObject
Set outputFile = fs.CreateTextFile(fileName, True) 'note file will be overwritten
'iterate through array and write to the file
For Each arrayElement In wordsArray
'Use the following code to place each word into separate COLUMN
'outputFile.Write (arrayElement) & ","
'Use the following code to place each word into separate ROW
outputFile.WriteLine (arrayElement)
Next
'close output stream
outputFile.Close
You can massage it based on your needs…
Hope this helps.