VBA Inserting Comments from Excel to Word - excel

Question

I'm new to VBA and I'm having difficulty trying to insert comments from data that I have in Excel onto a Word document. I am trying to write the VBA in Word and want it to extract data from a separate spreadsheet
Sub ConvertCelltoWordComment()
Dim Rng As Range
Dim wApp As Object
Dim strValue As String
Dim xlapp As Object
Dim xlsheet As Object
Dim xlbook As Object
'Opens Excel'
Set xlapp = GetObject("C:\Users\eugenechang\Desktop\...xlsx")
If Err Then
Set xlapp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
End If
On Error GoTo 0
Dim i As Integer
For i = 1 To 5
With xlsheet
strValue = ActiveSheet.Cells(i, 1).Offset(1, 0)
End With
'Insert comment into document'
ActiveDocument.Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToPage, Which:=wdGoToNext, Name:="15"
ActiveDocument.Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToLine, Which:=wdGoToRelative, Count:=5
ActiveDocument.Comments.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Text:=strValue
Next i
End Sub
I'm trying to get it to work, but it is giving me an error "Object not defined". I've tried setting up an object within the strValue line below "With xlsheet", but am hitting a wall. Any help??

Answer 1

You have not assigned anything to xlsheet - so this (by default) equates to Nothing.
Try setting xlSheet to something meaningful. The following is only an example:
For i = 1 To 5
Set xlsheet = xlbook.Worksheets(i) ' <--- example here
With xlsheet
strValue = .Cells(i, 1).Offset(1, 0) '<-- don't use ActiveSheet
End With
'Insert comment into document'
ActiveDocument.Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToPage, Which:=wdGoToNext, Name:="15"
ActiveDocument.Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToLine, Which:=wdGoToRelative, Count:=5
ActiveDocument.Comments.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Text:=strValue
Next I
An important note here is that you also have not set xlbook - you must also assign something meaningful to xlbook.

Answer 2

Add a couple DocVariables to your Word file and run the script below, from Excel.
Sub PushToWord()
Dim objWord As New Word.Application
Dim doc As Word.Document
Dim bkmk As Word.Bookmark
sWdFileName = Application.GetOpenFilename(, , , , False)
Set doc = objWord.Documents.Open(sWdFileName)
'On Error Resume Next
objWord.ActiveDocument.variables("FirstName").Value = Range("FirstName").Value
objWord.ActiveDocument.variables("LastName").Value = Range("LastName").Value
' etc., etc., etc.
objWord.ActiveDocument.Fields.Update
'On Error Resume Next
objWord.Visible = True
End Sub

Answer 3

This ended up writing comments from an Excel file. Obviously the names have been changed for privacy reasons. Please let me know if I can simplify this better.
Sub ConvertExceltoWordComment()
Dim wApp As Word.Application
Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Dim PgNum As Integer
Dim LineNum As Integer
Dim objSelection As Word.Document
Dim strpgSearch As Long
Dim strlinSearch As Long
Dim myRange As Range
Dim XlLog As Excel.Worksheet
Dim RowCount As Long
'Opens Copied Word document'
Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
xlApp.Visible = True
If Err Then
Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
End If
On Error GoTo 0
Dim SaveDoc As Excel.Workbook
Set SaveDoc = xlApp.Workbooks.Open("FilePath.xlsm") 'Type filepath of document here'
Set XlLog = SaveDoc.Sheets("Worksheet_Name") 'Type Sheetname here'
RowCount = XlLog.Range("A1048576").End(xlUp).Row
If RowCount > 0 Then
Dim iTotalRows As Long
iTotalRows = XlLog.Rows.Count 'Get total rows in the table'
Dim txt As Variant
Dim iRows As Long
End If
Dim i As Integer
'Insert comment into Word document'
Set wApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
wApp.Visible = True
If Err Then
Set wApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
End If
Set objSelection = ActiveDocument
For iRows = 3 To iTotalRows
txt = XlLog.Cells(iRows, 8).Text 'Grabs appropriate comment text'
objSelection.Activate
objSelection.SelectAllEditableRanges
strpgSearch = XlLog.Cells(iRows, 2) 'Grabs appropriate Page number'
strlinSearch = XlLog.Cells(iRows, 3) 'Grabs appropriate Line number'
objSelection.ActiveWindow.Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToPage, Which:=wdGoToNext,
Name:=strpgSearch
objSelection.ActiveWindow.Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToLine, Which:=wdGoToRelative,
Count:=strlinSearch
Set myRange = ActiveWindow.Selection.Range
ActiveDocument.Comments.Add Range:=myRange, Text:=txt
Next iRows
Set xlApp = Nothing
Set SaveDoc = Nothing
Set XlLog = Nothing
Set objSelection = Nothing
Set myRange = Nothing
Set wApp = Nothing
SaveDoc.Close
End Sub