Copy Word Paragraph to Excel Cells - excel

Question

I am trying to copy Word paragraphs to Excel cells, but I am hung up on
Runtime error 9: Subscript out of range.
I have searched. Everything I read says it cannot find the file, but the file is in the same folder, and the name is not mis-spelled, and the extension is correct. So, I am stumped. The original code comes from here: How to copy a formatted paragraph from Word 2013 to Excel?.
Private Sub Load_Schedule()
Dim ParaCount As Integer
Dim wDoc As Word.Document
Dim wb As Workbook
Dim ws As Worksheet
Set wDoc = ActiveDocument
Set wb = Workbooks("new.xlsm")
Set ws = wb.Sheets("Sheet1")
ws.Activate
ws.Columns(1).AutoFit
For ParaCount = 1 To wDoc.Paragraphs.Count
wDoc.Paragraphs(ParaCount).Range.FormattedText.Copy
Sheets(ws).Cells(ParaCount, 1).PasteSpecial
Paste:=xlPasteFormats
Next ParaCount
End Sub
The error comes on this line: Set wb = Workbooks("new.xlsm")

Answer 1

As you work with both applications, you should use full declarations like Word.Document and Excel.Workbook (if you already referenced the appropriate libraries).
An already opened Excel file can be referenced without path.
The Paste:= ... parameter belongs to the previous code line, so you have to add a blank + undersore at the end of the previous line or put them together into one line.
Please reference your worksheet's cell by ws.Cells ... and not by Sheets(ws), as your "ws" already is a worksheet object and not a string.
The further answer depends, if you run your code from Word-VBA or from Excel-VBA.
Word VBA
If you want to reference an Excel file from Word-VBA, you need the Excel.Application object additionally.
If Excel is already started, you can use the existing application object - otherwise you create one and make it visible.
Same with your Excel file: If it's already open, you use it - if not, you open it.
Private Sub LoadSchedule()
Dim ParaCount As Integer
Dim wDoc As Word.Document
Dim objExcel As Excel.Application
Dim wb As Excel.Workbook
Dim ws As Excel.Worksheet
On Error Resume Next
Set objExcel = GetObject(, "Excel.Application")
On Error GoTo 0
If objExcel Is Nothing Then
Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
objExcel.Visible = True
End If
On Error Resume Next
Set wb = objExcel.Workbooks("new.xlsm")
On Error GoTo 0
If wb Is Nothing Then
Set wb = objExcel.Workbooks.Open(objExcel.DefaultFilePath & "\new.xlsm")
' or ThisDocument.Path or whatever path
End If
Set wDoc = ActiveDocument
Set ws = wb.Sheets("Sheet1")
For ParaCount = 1 To wDoc.Paragraphs.Count
wDoc.Paragraphs(ParaCount).Range.FormattedText.Copy
ws.Cells(ParaCount, 1).PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteFormats
Next ParaCount
ws.Columns(1).AutoFit
'ws.Activate
End Sub
Excel VBA
In Excel you can try to reference an already opened Word file directly as ActiveDocument without getting the Word.Application additionally.
Private Sub LoadSchedule()
Dim ParaCount As Integer
Dim wDoc As Word.Document
Dim wb As Excel.Workbook
Dim ws As Excel.Worksheet
On Error Resume Next
Set wb = Workbooks("new.xlsm")
On Error GoTo 0
If wb Is Nothing Then
Set wb = Workbooks.Open(Application.DefaultFilePath & "\new.xlsm")
End If
Set wDoc = ActiveDocument
Set ws = wb.Sheets("Sheet1")
For ParaCount = 1 To wDoc.Paragraphs.Count
wDoc.Paragraphs(ParaCount).Range.FormattedText.Copy
ws.Cells(ParaCount, 1).PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteFormats
Next ParaCount
ws.Columns(1).AutoFit
'ws.Activate
End Sub

Answer 2

You need to specify the full path to the excel file - you say it's the same as the word document so this will work:
Sub GetXLFileInWord()
Dim xl As Excel.Application
Set xl = New Excel.Application
Dim wb As Excel.Workbook
Set wb = xl.Documents.Open(ThisDocument.Path & "\new.xlsm")