I manually copy 4 or 5 pieces of text from an email body to clipboard.
Then I want a procedure that assigns each one of these piece of text to a string variable separated by semicolons.
The “codes” below do not work. I write them just to helping explain what I want.
I will appreciate any help.
Sub ColectClipboardItems()
Dim strClip As String
strClip = vbNullString
For Each Item In Clipboard.Items
strClip = strClip & ";" & Item
Next Item
End Sub
I'm not sure if it's true, but the following link indicates that currently Excel can only handle information from the Windows clipboard, which only stores one value at a time:
Access The Nth Item of Clipboard
However, you could try to create the following:
Two step manual process:
A macro in Outlook that stores your data in the Windows clipboard (concatenated). Instead of Ctrl + C you would click a button in your Outlook ribbon.
A macro in Excel that retrieves such data from it.
I think this is prone to human errors.
Or a one step process:
A macro in Outlook that stores all your data & by itself calls another macro in Excel to save it there.
This depends on your e-mail having a consistent structure, though.
I have a Word document with VBA code to embed multiple excel sheets using the following process i.e. addOLEObject
Set IllSheet = _
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("example1").Range.InlineShapes.AddOLEObject(ClassType:="Excel.Sheet.12", filename:=filename1, LinkToFile:=False)
however on occasion the embedded spreadsheet does not display at the top of the sheet but seemingly randomly scrolled part way down the sheet. I have checked and the excel sheet is saved with it scrolled to the top.
How can I ensure the sheet embedded is always scrolled to the top?
I can access the embedded sheet and input values as per below but can not seem to find a suitable line of code to ensure that the sheet displays at the top of active sheet.
Set objOLE = ActiveDocument.InlineShapes(3).OLEFormat
objOLE.Activate
objOLE.Object.ActiveSheet.Cells(1, 3).Value = Format(Funds, "#,###0")
Selection.MoveRight
objOLE.Object.Application.Quit
DoEvents
I have tried scroll functions etc and also want to avoid using SendKeys because it is so unreliable.
Any help greatly appreciated.
M
I am looking at inserting/pasting a range of text data (40 columns) from Excel into bookmarks in Word. Most of the answers are done using Excel VBA, which is so not practical for my use case as I will have the Word document open, add a button that would run this 'import data' macro. I actually already have a button in the doc that inserts images into bookmarks, so that's one more reason I don't want to do it via Excel VBA.
I know this is not great code, but for the lack of definite leads, I'm throwing it here and hope that this gives you an idea of what I'm trying to achieve:
Sub ImportData()
Workbooks.Open ("\Book2.xlsm")
ActiveWindow.WindowState = xlMinimized
ThisWorkbook.Activate
Windows("Book2.xlsm").Activate
Range("A1:AF1").Select
Selection.Copy
Documents("test.docm").Activate
Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="Overlay_1"
Selection.Paste
End Sub
PS: It would be great if I could sort of 'transpose' the 40 columns into rows as it is pasted in Word.
Here's an update to my code based off #Variatus 's advice:
Sub ImportData()
Dim wb As Workbooks
Dim ws As Worksheets
Dim objSheet As Object
Dim objWord As Object
Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
wb.Open ("C:\Users\pc\Documents\Book2.xlsm")
Set objSheet = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
ActiveWindow.WindowState = xlMinimized
Set ws = Workbooks("Book2.xlsm").Sheets("Sheet1")
ws.Range("A1").Value.Copy
With objWord.ActiveDocument
.Bookmarks("Bookmark_1").Range.Text = ws.Range("A1").Value
End With
End Sub
I'm getting this error:
Runtime Error '91':
Object variable or With block variable not set.
Notice how I stuck with a single cell reference for now (A1). I'll just update my code as I learn along the way :)
When you click the button in your Word document you want the following sequence to be initiated.
Create an Excel application object. Make sure that a reference to Excel has been set (VBE > Tools > References) so that Excel's VBA objects are available.
Using the Excel application object, open the workbook. Create an object. Place the object in an invisible window.
Definitely forget about activating or selecting anything in either the workbook or your Word document. The latter is active and remains active from beginning to end. The bookmarks are points in your document you can reference and manipulate by name without selecting them. The Excel workbook is invisible. You can access any part of it using the Range object.
The data you want from your workbook are contained in Worksheets. Be sure to create an object for the worksheet you are about to draw data from.
Excel tables don't translate very well into Word tables. If you do want to go that way I suggest that you use VBA to create the table you want in Excel (transpose the data before you import them into Word). However, you may find it easier to first create the tables you want in Word and then just copy values from your Excel source into the word tables. That would involve taking one cell value at a time and placing it into one Word table cell. Transposing would be done by the algorithm you employ.
Close the workbook. Quit the Excel application. Set the Excel application = Nothing. At the end of your macro everything is as it was before except that your document has data in it which it didn't have before.
Each of the above six points will lead you to at least one question which you can ask here after you have googled the subject and written some code. In fact, I strongly urge you to create one Main procedure (the one which responds to your button click) and let that procedure call various subs which carry out the individual tasks and functions to support the subs. The smaller the parts you create the easier it is to write the code, to find questions to ask and get answers to them. If you plan your project well expect to have about 12 procedures in it by the time you are done. Good luck!
We have a standard form in MS Word to manually fill in details and launch a macro. This macro will open a MS Excel register to auto populate it from the fields in the Word document whilst doing other things.
The current solution has a keyboard shortcut for the macro in the Excel spreadsheet and the Word document macro sends the keys strokes to the opened Excel spreadsheet to launch the macro. This only works for a few people in the office.
Can I call my Excel macro directly from the Word macro while my Excel spreadsheet is in focus or is there a Windows setting that is blocking my send keys to launch the macro?
This is just a hunch, but would it be possible to migrate the Excel macro from the Excel spreadsheet to the Word document? Then you could add a bit of code to launch the correct Excel spreadsheet and perform the necessary field manipulations. So, basically, let your Word document do all the work on the Excel spreadsheet.
Alternately, you could follow the procedure discussed here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177760
Here is the relevant code listing:
Sub XLTest()
Dim XL as Object
Set XL = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
XL.Workbooks.Open "C:\My Documents\ExcelFile.xls"
' If there is more than one macro called TestMacro,
' the module name would be required as in
'
' XL.Run "Module1.TestMacro"
'
' to differentiate which routine is being called.
'
XL.Run "TestMacro"
End Sub
I've got an Access 2007 database on which I have created around 15 SQL queries to process specific data, I have created a main frame navigation menu using menus in Access, I now need to extract all th queries to Excel using VBA code, I have managed to do this with the code below by creating a button and specifying this code to it.
Private Sub query1_Click()
DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet acExport, _
acSpreadsheetTypeExcel9, "Total Users and Sessions", _
"C:\UsersandSessions.xls", , "Total Users & Sessions"
End Sub
Now my problem at the moment is that fine the query is exported to Excel, but it is done so without any formatting applied at all, I would like to add some formatting at least to the headers and maybe a title inside the spreadsheet, and one thing I dont really like is that all records are being started from the first cell. Also I would prefer that if I hit that button again in Access and the Excel spreadsheet has already exists with that query output then when clicked again it will write again to a the next available sheet.
Any suggestions or ideas a very welcome.
The short story, is you can't. You might be able to do some scripting on the Excel side to format the resulting file. If you want something pretty, you probably want to create a report.
You could, instead mount the excel sheet as a table, and then on a separated sheet in the excel file, reference the first sheet, and format the second sheet for viewing.
if you use DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet and create an original and then edit it so that the formatting is correct, you can then run DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet again and it will update the file with the values but keep the formatting.
However, if a human then changes the file by adding new tabs, or adding calculations, etc, then the DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet will no longer work and will fail with an ugly error message. So what we do in our enviroment is DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet to an original file with formatting, and follow that up in the VBA by copying the file to the users desktop, and then opening that copy so the user doesn't mess up the original source excel file.
This approach is a minimum code, clean, and easy to maintain solution. But it does require a extra "source" or original file to be hanging around. Works in Access 2007.
You also would like the results to end up on a new tab. Unfortunately, I think it will take some excel automation to do that. The VBA inside Acccess can call a function inside the VBA in Excel. That VBA could then copy the tabs as needed.
My idea would be a hybrid of Excel automation from Access and creating a template in Excel as well that would have a data table linked to your query.
To start create your data table in Excel. You can start three rows down and two columns to the right if you want or wherever. Go to your data tab and click access, find your db, choose your query you want to link to, choose table as the radio button but click properties next instead of ok, uncheck the enable background refresh, this part is critical ... under the definition tab in the connection string you will see a part that says Mode=Share Deny Write change that to Mode=Read, this will make sure that the query refreshes without errors from an MS Access VBA while the db is open and will keep your users from writing back to the db in case your query is a writeable query. Once you set that up you can adjust the table formatting however you choose from the table design tab and it will keep that formatting.
For the purposes of this we are going to assume you started the table in cell B4 ,and your named the worksheet CurrentDay, for purpose of the following VBA example be sure to replace that reference with your actual placement.
Next go back to Access and write your VBA first ensure that in your VBA window you have the reference to Microsoft Excel 12.0 Object Library is selected by going to Tools > References and selecting it from the alphabetical listing.
Create your sub as follows:
Sub query1_click()
Dim xl as Excel.Application
Dim wbk as Excel.Workbook
Dim wks as Excel.Worksheet
Dim RC as Integer
Dim CC as Integer
Set xl = New Excel.Application
Set wbk = xl.wbk.Open "X:\Filelocation\FileName.xlsx" 'name and path you saved the file you previously created
xl.Visible = True
'The above is not necessary but you may want to see your process work the first few times and it will be easier than going to task manager to end Excel if something fails.
RC = xl.Application.CountA(xl.wbk.Worksheets("CurrentDay").Range("B:B")) + 3 'This will count the rows of data in your table including your header so you can copy the data to another tab dynamically as the size of your table expands and shrinks we add 3 to it because we started at row 4 and we need the location of the last row of the record set.
CC = xl.Application.CountA(xl.wbk.Worksheets("CurrentDay").Range("4:4")) + 1 'This counts the header row and adds one space because we will use this as a location holder for our copy / paste function
Set wks = xl.wbk.Worksheets.Add
wks.Name = format(date(),"MM_dd_yy") 'this will name the tab with today's date... you can eliminate this step if you just want the sheets to be the generic Sheet1, Sheet2, etc.
With xl.wbk
.Worksheets("CurrentDay").Range(Cells(4,2),Cells(RC,CC)).Copy
.wks.PasteSpecial xlPasteValues 'This pastes the values so that the table links do not paste otherwise every tab would just refresh everyday.
.wks.PasteSpecial xlPasteFormats 'This gets your formatting.
.RefreshAll 'This will refresh your table
Wend
With xl
.Save
.Close False
.Quit
Wend
Set xl = Nothing
Set wbk = Nothing
Set wks = Nothing
End Sub
That should get you to have your data to not start on A1 of your sheets, save your old data each time, and automate the steps from access.