Monday, January 30, 2012

How to Extract Comment information from Word VBA

How to Extract Comments Text and Related Information from Word Document using VBA

Here is a hint of accessing the comments and related information using VBA

Sub Get_Comment_Information()

Dim oComment As Comment
Dim oCommentRange As Range

For i1 = 1 To ActiveDocument.Comments.Count
    Set oComment = ActiveDocument.Comments(i1)
    Set oCommentRange = oComment.Scope.Paragraphs(1).Range
    Debug.Print "Page : " & oCommentRange.Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber) & vbTab _
                     & "Line : " & oCommentRange.Information(wdFirstCharacterLineNumber) & vbTab

    

Next i1

End Sub

How to Identify and Tag Numbered Lists using VBA

How to Identify and Tag Bullet Lists using VBA

Following snippet identifies a Bulleted List and Tags all Bullet List items and the Bulletted List as a whole

Sub Tag_Lists()

Dim oBL As ListFormat
Dim oList As List
Dim oLI

    For Each oList In ActiveDocument.Lists
        If oList.Range.ListFormat.ListType = WdListType.wdListBullet Then
            For Each oLI In oList.ListParagraphs
                oLI.Range.InsertBefore "
  • " oLI.Range.InsertAfter "
  • " Next oLI oList.Range.InsertBefore "
      " oList.Range.InsertAfter "
    " End If Next oList End Sub

    Compare Word Documents with Headers and Footers using VBA

    How to Compare Word Documents Programatically using Word VBA

    Word Documents are everywhere .. proposals, tenders, notes, technical papers. In many cases there are more than one authors and more than five reviewers. There is a devil in everyone which comes out when reviewing the document. Suggest some changes.. boldface  some text, markup some paragraph and screw the document. If you are  the author it is your responsibility to ensure that the changes get reflected. There are many document management solutions that are available for parallel working.

    Just in case you get a document reviewed by your boss (and without track changes) and you want to know what he/she has done use the following

    Sub CompareDoc()
    
    Dim oDoc1 As Document
    Dim oDoc2 As Document
    
    Set oDoc1 = Documents.Open("D:\Changed Header.doc")
    Set oDoc2 = Documents.Open("D:\Original Header.doc")
    Application.CompareDocuments oDoc1, oDoc2, wdCompareDestinationNew, , , , , , True, True
    
    End Sub
    

    This compares two documents and creates a new document with Track Changes showing the changes.


    There are lot of parameters to CompareDocuments method. The notable being CompareFormatting, CompareHeaders, CompareFootnotes. The last two ones are used if you want to know the changes made in Headers and Footers. Who knows you would have kept the same header from the document you cloned and your boss would have noticed and changed it. Do you want to take risk of ignoring that

    See also
    Comparing two Word Documents using Word VBA
    Compare Files by Date

    How to Convert Word Table to PDF using VBA

    Export Word Table as PDF using VBA

    Anyone who is using Word for quite sometime will agree that Tables and Images are bit scary when it comes to viewing across versions or machines. A Table which looks great in your machine might not look so if he uses a different version of Word.

    In that case it is better to have the Table converted as PDF in your machine and circulate the same. In last post we saw how to export part of text to a new document using ExportFragment method. Here we export a Table as PDF using ExportAsFixedFormat method.

    The following snippet does exactly the same:

    Sub Table2PDF()
    
    Dim oTab As Word.Table
    Dim oRange As Word.Range
    
    Set oTab = ActiveDocument.Tables(1)
    
    oTab.Range.ExportAsFixedFormat "D:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My Documents\Tab_PDF.pdf", wdExportFormatPDF
    
    End Sub
    

    See also:
    Convert Word to PDF using VBA

    How to Export Parts of Document using Word VBA

    Copy Content with Formatting to New Document using Word VBA

    Not all the tens and hundreds of pages in a Word document interests you or matters to you. There are some documents, which we use for reference. All we need is a paragraph/section from the document. If it is a book we used to take a photo-copy of the same and keep it in a folder. How to do the same in a Word document - and in an automated way with all the formatting intact?

     ExportFragment method in Word VBA provides the solution. It creates a new document from the existing one for the Range of your choice.

    Here is an example where it exports eleventh paragraph of the document to a new one.

    Sub PartofText()
    
    Dim oWDRange As Word.Range
    
    Set oWDRange = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(11).Range
    oWDRange.ExportFragment "D:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My Documents\Reference_11.docx", wdFormatDocumentDefault
    
    End Sub
    

    See also

    How to Format Part of Content Controls in Word VBA

    Word VBA - Format Some portion of Rich Text Content Control Programatically

    ContentControls have become ubiquitous with Word documents nowadays. Rich Text Content Control is used by many developers and authors to represent useful information.

    At times there is a necessity to highlight / format some part of the Text in that control. You can either search for the text and highlight it or Highlight them based on position

    The following example shows how to boldface certain portion of ContentControl

    Sub FormatContentControl()
    
    Dim oCC As ContentControl
    Dim oCCRange As Range
    Dim oCCRngFormat As Range
    Dim oChr As Range
    
    Set oCC = ActiveDocument.ContentControls(1)
    oCC.Type = wdContentControlRichText
    Set oCCRange = oCC.Range
    Set oCCRngFormat = oCCRange.Duplicate
    
    oCC.LockContentControl = False
    oCC.LockContents = False
    
    oCCRngFormat.Start = 20
    oCCRngFormat.End = oCCRange.End
    
    For Each oChr In oCCRngFormat.Characters
        oChr.Font.Bold = True
    Next oChr
    
    oCCRngFormat.Font.Bold = -1
    oCCRngFormat.Font.Underline = WdUnderline.wdUnderlineSingle
    
    oCCRngFormat.Start = oCCRange.End
    oCCRngFormat.Font.Bold = 0
    oCCRngFormat.Font.Underline = WdUnderline.wdUnderlineNone
    
    
    End Sub
    

    See also
    How to retrieve value from Content Controls using Word VBA
    How to add Content Controls using VBA

    Sunday, January 29, 2012

    How to Search and Highlight/Tag a string in Word VBA

    How to Search Content for Specific String/Text using Word VBA

    This action is performed often by programmers - there are couple of ways to do

    1. Selection.Find
    2. Content.Find

    We will have a look at how to search a string, highlight the string and tag the same using Word VBA. This needs document to be open

    Sub Highlight_Tag_Found_Word()
    
    Dim sFindText As String
    
    sFindText = "Olympics"
    
    Selection.ClearFormatting
    
    Selection.HomeKey wdStory, wdMove
    
    Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
    
    Selection.Find.Execute sFindText
    
     
    
    Do Until Selection.Find.Found = False
    
            Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdPink
            
            Selection.InsertBefore "< FoundWord >"
            
            Selection.InsertAfter < /FoundWord >
            
            Selection.MoveRight
            
            Selection.Find.Execute
    
    Loop
    
     
    
    End Sub
    
    

    Saturday, January 21, 2012

    How to create a Trendline Chart using Excel VBA

    Excel VBA - Trendline Charts

    Here are some snippets useful to create a TrendLine Chart in Excel

    Have used the entire data from the given sheet to create the chart. Have used the UsedRange function to get that.

    If you want to have a specified range you can pass that also

    Sub Create_TrendLine_Chart_Excel_2003(ByRef oRep As Worksheet, ByVal iLeft As Double, ByVal iTop As Double, ByVal sChartTitle As String, ByRef oSource As Range)
    Dim oChts As ChartObjects           '* Chart Object Collection
    Dim oCht As ChartObject             '* Chart Object

    On Error GoTo Err_Chart
        Set oChts = oRep.ChartObjects
        Set oCht = oChts.Add(iLeft, iTop, 400, 450)
       
        oCht.Chart.SetSourceData oSource, PlotBy:=xlColumns
        oCht.Chart.ChartType = xlLineMarkers
       
        oCht.Chart.HasTitle = True
        oCht.Chart.ChartTitle.Text = sChartTitle
       
        oCht.Chart.Legend.Position = xlLegendPositionRight
       
        oCht.Chart.HasAxis(XlAxisType.xlCategory) = True
        oCht.Chart.Axes(XlAxisType.xlCategory, xlPrimary).HasTitle = True
        oCht.Chart.Axes(XlAxisType.xlCategory, xlPrimary).AxisTitle.Characters.Text = ""
       
        oCht.Chart.HasAxis(XlAxisType.xlValue) = True
        oCht.Chart.Axes(XlAxisType.xlValue, xlPrimary).HasTitle = True
        oCht.Chart.Axes(xlValue, xlPrimary).AxisTitle.Text = "Percentage Done" '.Axes(Type:=XlAxisType.xlValue).AxisTitle.Text = "% Done"
        oCht.Chart.Axes(xlValue).MaximumScale = 1
       
        oCht.Chart.Axes(xlCategory).TickLabelSpacing = 1
        oCht.Chart.Axes(xlCategory).TickLabels.Font.Size = 8
       
        'oCht.Chart.SetElement (msoElementPrimaryCategoryGridLinesMajor)

        If Not oCht Is Nothing Then Set oCht = Nothing
        If Not oChts Is Nothing Then Set oChts = Nothing


    Err_Chart:
    If Err <> 0 Then
       Debug.Assert Err = 0
       Debug.Print Err.Description
       If Err.Number = 94 Then  'Invalid Use of Null Error
            Err.Clear
            Resume Next
       Else
            Err.Clear
            Resume Next
       End If
    End If


    End Sub

    For some reason the above was creating a problem in Excel 2007 and above. Hence created a separate snippet for it

    Sub Create_TrendLine_Chart_Excel_2007(ByRef oRep As Worksheet, ByVal iLeft As Double, ByVal iTop As Double, ByVal sChartTitle As String)
    Dim oChts As ChartObjects           '* Chart Object Collection
    Dim oCht As ChartObject             '* Chart Object

    On Error GoTo Err_Chart
        Set oChts = oRep.ChartObjects
        Set oCht = oChts.Add(iLeft, iTop, 400, 450)
       
        oCht.Chart.ChartWizard Source:=oRep.UsedRange
        oCht.Chart.ChartType = xlLineMarkers
       
        oCht.Chart.HasTitle = True
        oCht.Chart.ChartTitle.Text = sChartTitle
       
        oCht.Chart.Legend.Position = xlLegendPositionRight
       
       
        oCht.Chart.HasAxis(XlAxisType.xlCategory) = True
        oCht.Chart.Axes(XlAxisType.xlCategory, xlPrimary).HasTitle = True
        oCht.Chart.Axes(XlAxisType.xlCategory, xlPrimary).AxisTitle.Characters.Text = ""
       
        oCht.Chart.HasAxis(XlAxisType.xlValue) = True
        oCht.Chart.Axes(XlAxisType.xlValue, xlPrimary).HasTitle = True
        oCht.Chart.Axes(xlValue, xlPrimary).AxisTitle.Text = "Percentage Done" '.Axes(Type:=XlAxisType.xlValue).AxisTitle.Text = "% Done"
        oCht.Chart.Axes(xlValue).MaximumScale = 1

        'oCht.Chart.SetElement (msoElementPrimaryCategoryGridLinesMajor)

    Err_Chart:
    If Err <> 0 Then
       Debug.Assert Err = 0
       Debug.Print Err.Description
       If Err.Number = 94 Then  'Invalid Use of Null Error
            Err.Clear
            Resume Next
       Else
            Err.Clear
            Resume Next
       End If
    End If


    End Sub

    ChartType = xlLineMarkers makes this Chart a TrendLine. You can try your luck by selecting other types
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