I found the article about putting excel cells into an email using the RangetoHTML function in VBA. It works like a charm, but now I’m facing a Problem.
If there are Umlaut (e.g.: ü, ä, ö) in the cells the result in the email shows strange symbols (e.g.: ä, …).
I looked up the written temp.htm file. On the first view of this file, it seems the umlaute are correctly written, but after looking through the file with an hex editor i found that the written symbols are not correct.
The function which writes the file is: PublishObjects.Add
So I hope someone can help me with this.
Edit: Added a testfile. Word and Office is needed.
Select the table and run the procedure SendMail.
You will always have problems with vba and foreign chars and the web.
EDIT:
Because you can't separate the cell values from the html the function below will unfortunately not work in this situation. BUT:
if you Save a copy of the document with western European windows encoding it will work.
(See comments below).
To be able to do that you press "Save As" and there is a dropdown on the left side of the save button (Tools) which will give you a dialog where you can change the encoding.
The image has ben lifted from technet and always save web.. is not necessary.
EOF EDIT:
This is a function I have used, Unfortunately can't remember who I got it from, But its from the olden days of vba and classic asp
Put your email cell formula into this function and it should work because all the letters are html encoded. Its slow and makes a bad overhead. But it will work.
Function HtmlEncode(ByVal inText As String) As String
Dim i As Integer
Dim sEnc As Integer
Dim repl As String
HtmlEncode = inText
For i = Len(HtmlEncode) To 1 Step -1
sEnc = Asc(Mid$(HtmlEncode, i, 1))
Select Case sEnc
Case 32
repl = " "
Case 34
repl = """
Case 38
repl = "&"
Case 60
repl = "<"
Case 62
repl = ">"
Case 32 To 127
'Numbers
Case Else
repl = "&#" & CStr(sEnc) & ";" 'Encode it all
End Select
If Len(repl) Then
HtmlEncode = Left$(HtmlEncode, i - 1) & repl & Mid$(HtmlEncode, i + 1)
repl = ""
End If
Next
End Function
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I'm facing a odd behavior by applying different colours within one cell via VBA.
In my case there are hundrets of cells within one column, showing different work-packages.
My vba code exaclty does what it should do, by coloring identified strings (respecively work packages) via looping through the cells and identifiying each work package via RegExp.
Here there is one extract that is doing the coloring job:
Set objRegex = CreateObject("vbscript.regexp")
With objRegex
.Global = True
.Pattern = suchmuster
If .test(objWks_myTable.Cells(row_myTable, 20).Value) Then
Set RegMC = .Execute(objWks_myTable.Cells(row_myTable, 20).Value)
For Each RegM In RegMC
objWks_myTable.Cells(row_myTable, 20).Characters(RegM.FirstIndex + 1, RegM.Length).Font.Color = vbOrange
Next
End If
End With
The issue appears as soon as I double click the cell after my makro run.
Then without any recognizable pattern, some characters are shown in a different color (mostly not only one character but a connected bunch of). In the picutre, the first cell shows the colours after my vba run, the second cell shows how it will immediately look like, if i double click it.
If I leave the edit mode via Escape, the original vba set colors will stay, If I leave the edit mode via Return, the undefined changes happen.
There are no formats nor format conditions set within the cells.
I really need somebodys help here. Would be great to find a solution!
Many Thanks !
This picture should show the issue:
Picture of the issue
I've found the issue.
First I tried also Instr instead of using a RegExp but the issue didn't disappear.
So I was investigating in my code that writes the strings into the cells.
And within that code I did the following:
dummy = dummy & " # " & z_trim(ctrl.Caption) & vbCrLf
ActiveCell.Value = dummy
The issue is because of vbCrLf
If I write the strings into the cells the following way, the changes within my coloring run are fixed, there is no change by entering the cell in edit mode:
dummy = dummy & " # " & z_trim(ctrl.Caption) & Chr(10)
ActiveCell.Value = dummy
Picture of fixed issue
It works, so I'm fine. But still interessted, why vbCrLf is causing such confusing thing?
I've built a form that automates part of our process for building Spreadsheets at work it all works fine except when building a string to set as a selected cells value. this is a requirement for error tracing etc.
ct_cell.Value = GetCommentString()
Private Function GetCommentString() As String
GetCommentString = PlantName & " - " & Replace(Mid(ActiveWorkbook.name, 14) _
, ".xlsm", vbNullString) & ", " & FromSheet & " - " & SAP_Automator.cmnt_input
End Function
What we want to happen is for the Comment section in the sheet we are automating to look like the following: PlantName - WorkbookName, TabName - Comment input from form
at the moment most are coming out around 54 - 55 chars long and vba keeps trimming the start of the string off to bring the length down to 50
we really need to keep all these values in this string so we can easily trace errors when they occur.
is there a way around this? after a bit of googling it seems that vba's char limit is 255 and a cells char limit is 32k+ so this doesn't make any sense to me that is keeps trimming back to 50
any help would be appreciated
Found the issue. the variable PlantName was not set as a public variable so didn't exist within the context of the GetCommentString() function
this happened after I done a code cleanup last week and separated alot of the clutter out into separate functions
I have a text in a worksheet like:
The girl is very beautiful
I want a formula to perform a search from right to left for the word "very", and if found then extract it to some other region of the sheet.
Note: Purpose of doing reverse search is because I want to implement it in my workbook which requires reverse search.
At least, say me how to revert the text like this :
beautiful very is girl The
Then I can do a normal search. I don't know VBA so please give some formula.
VBA Function to reverse the words in text:
Public Function StrReverse(strIn As String, Optional Delimiter As String = " ") As String
'Reverse the words in 'StrIn', split on a "Space" unless 'Delimiter' is specified
Do While InStrRev(strIn, Delimiter) <> 0
StrReverse = StrReverse & Delimiter & Right(strIn, Len(strIn) - InStrRev(strIn, Delimiter))
strIn = Trim(Left(strIn, InStrRev(strIn, Delimiter) - 1))
Loop
StrReverse = Trim(StrReverse & Delimiter & strIn)
If Left(StrReverse, 1) = Delimiter Then StrReverse = Right(StrReverse, Len(StrReverse) - 1)
End Function
For example, if cell A1 contains:
The girl is very beautiful
...then you could enter in another cell:
=StrReverse(A1)
...which would return:
beautiful very is girl The
To add a custom VBA function to a workbook:
Copy the code for the function you want to add to Excel (from above).
In an Excel, workbook, press Alt + F11 to open the VBA Editor (VBE).
Press Alt + I M to insert a new module.
Press Ctrl + V to paste in the code.
Press Alt + F C to return to Excel.
Edit #1:
Added optional delimiter to function above (defaults to a " " space).
Also, FindReverse (below), which allows VBA's (little-known) InStrRev function to be used on worksheets.
Public Function FindReverse(StringCheck As String, StringMatch As String, _
Optional Start As Long = -1) As Long
'Returns the position number of the last occurrence of 'Stringmatch"
'within StringCheck', Optionally specify the position number from the
'end to begin the search. (-1 = Begin at the end)
FindReverse = InStrRev(StringCheck, StringMatch, Start)
End Function
Edit #2:
LOL # Myself ... I'm always telling people not to try to recreate functionality that's already built into MS Office, and it seems that I unwittingly did the same thing -- even giving it the same as the existing VBA Function.
Built-in VBA function:
I realize that it's not identical functionality as the StrReverse function I wrote (above) but I suspect it also could have solved OP's original inquiry...
Nonetheless, I am really surprised that VBA even allows a custom function to have the same name as a built-in function!
How to confuse VBA:
I have a frustrating problem. I have a string containg other characters that are not in this list (check link). My string represents a SQL Query.
This is an example of what my string can contain: INSERT INTO test (description) VALUES ('≤ ≥ >= <=')
When I check the database, the row is inserted successfully, but the characters "≤" and "≥" are replaced with "=" character.
In the database the string in description column looks like "= = >= <=".
For the most characters I can get a character code. I googled a character code for those two symbols, but I didn't find one. My goal is to check if my string contains this two characters , and afterwards replace them with ">=" and "<="
===Later Edit===
I have tried to check every character in a for loop;
tmp = Mid$(str, i, 1)
tmp will have the value "=" when my for loop reaches the "≤" character, so Excel cannot read this "≤" character in a VB string, then when I'm checking for character code I get the code for "=" (Chr(61))
Are you able to figure out what the character codes for both "≤" and "≥" in your database character set are? if so then maybe try replacing both characters in your query string with chrw(character_code).
I have just tested something along the lines of what you are trying to do using Excel as my database - and it looks to work fine.
Edit: assuming you are still stuck and looking for assistance here - could you confirm what database you are working with, and any type information setting for the "description" field you are looking to insert your string into?
Edit2: I am not familiar with SQL server, but isn't your "description" field set up to be of a certain data type? if so what is it and does it support unicode characters? ncharvar, nchar seem to be examples of sql server data types that support Unicode.
It sounds like you may also want to try and add an "N" prefix to the value in your query string - see
Do I have use the prefix N in the "insert into" statement for unicode? &
how to insert unicode text to SQL Server from query window
Edit3: varchar won't qualify for proper rendering of Unicode - see here What is the difference between varchar and nvarchar?. Can you switch to nvarchar? as mentionned above, you may also want to prefix the values in your query string with 'N' for full effect
Edit4: I can't speak much more about sqlserver, but what you are looking at here is how VBA displays the character, not at how it actually stores it in memory - which is the bottom line. VBA won't display "≤" properly since it doesn't support the Unicode character set. However, it may - and it does - store the binary representation correctly.
For any evidence of this, just try and paste back the character to another cell in Excel from VBA, and you will retrieve the original character - or look at the binary representation in VBA:
Sub test()
Dim s As String
Dim B() As Byte
'8804 is "≤" character in Excel character set
s = ChrW(8804)
'Assign memory representation of s to byte array B
B = s
'This loop prints "100" and "34", respectively the low and high bytes of s coding in memory
'representing binary value 0010 0010 0110 0100 ie 8804
For i = LBound(B) To UBound(B)
Debug.Print B(i)
Next i
'This prints "=" because VBA can not render character code 8804 properly
Debug.Print s
End Sub
If I copy your text INSERT INTO test (description) VALUES ('≤ ≥ >= <=') and paste it into the VBA editor, it becomes INSERT INTO test (description) VALUES ('= = >= <=').
If I paste that text into a Excel cell or an Access table's text field, it pastes "correctly".
This seems to be a matter of character code supported, and I suggest you have a look at this SO question.
But where in you program does that string come from, since it cannot be typed in VBA ??
Edit: I jus gave it a try with the below code, and it works like a charm for transferring your exotic characters from the worksheet to a table !
Sub test1()
Dim db As Object, rs As Object, cn As Object
Set cn = CreateObject("DAO.DBEngine.120")
Set db = cn.OpenDatabase("P:\Database1.accdb")
Set rs = db.OpenRecordset("table1")
With rs
.addnew
.Fields(0) = Range("d5").Value
.Update
End With
End Sub
I wrote a User Defined Fucntion in Excel. It works great with no issues. I even wrote a description for it under the object properties menu.
The problem is, my UDF never shows up in the Excel drop down menu that appears when I start to type a function. I want the user to be able to see my UDF, named removeNumbers, when they go into a cell and start to type out a function.
I would also like them to be able to see the description which I wrote, just like the standard Excel functions.
And finally, is there a way that I can provide a description for each argument which my function takes as input?
Here is the actual code, although I don't think it will be necessary to answer my questions.
Function removeNumbers(sInput As String, sChoice As Boolean) As String
Dim sSpecialChars As String
Dim i As Long
If (sChoice = True) Then 'if true is selected, will remove all number including 0
sSpecialChars = "0123456789" 'This is your list of characters to be removed
For i = 1 To Len(sSpecialChars)
sInput = Replace$(sInput, Mid$(sSpecialChars, i, 1), "")
Next
End If
If (sChoice = False) Then 'if false is selected, will remove all numbers excluding zero
sSpecialChars = "123456789" 'This is your list of characters to be removed
For i = 1 To Len(sSpecialChars)
sInput = Replace$(sInput, Mid$(sSpecialChars, i, 1), "")
Next
End If
removeNumbers = sInput
End Function
To make the function appear in the drop-down you must place it in a standard module rather than the worksheet code area.
Another poster has already covered the need for the code to be in a standard module. With regards the argument descriptions, you should look at the MacroOptions code in this answer - although it only works in Excel 2010 or later.
For Excel 2007 and earlier, the only solution I have seen is in an article by JK Pieterse. This involves using the ExecuteExcel4Macro and looks a bit complicated.