populating second column of listbox....how?

[voip1234]

I have listbox which I have initialized with
listbox1.ColumnCount = 2

then i need to populate it with the values from
an array (which is passed on to me by another function)
in one column and a repeating string on the
second column.

The code to populate the first column is
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Dim vFiles As Variant
vFiles = FileOpenDialog(Options.DefaultFilePath(wdDocumentsPath))
If IsArray(vFiles) Then
ListBox2.List = vFiles
End If
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now I want to populate the second column of this
listbox with the same string...
I tried using .list and .column, also additem,
but they all give me an error...its as if the second
column doesnt exist...is it possible that
by setting this line
ListBox2.List = vFiles
where vfiles is a one dimensional array, the listbox
becomes one dimensional?

or what might i be doing wrong?
I suppose my other option is to copy that array into
a two dimensional array and then populate with the
2 dimensional array info, but is that the best way to go?
thank you

 

[voip1234]

i forgot to mention...the reason i dont want to use the array method is
cause I dont know how to create an array with a dynamic size.

 

[Doug Robbins]

This routine loads a listbox with client details stored in a table in a
separate
document (which makes it easy to maintain with additions, deletions etc.),
that document being saved as Clients.Doc for the following code.

On the UserForm, have a list box (ListBox1) and a Command Button
(CommandButton1) and use the following code in the UserForm_Initialize() and
the CommandButton1_Click() routines

Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
Dim sourcedoc As Document, i As Integer, j As Integer, myitem As Range,
m As Long, n As Long
' Modify the path in the following line so that it matches where you
saved Clients.doc
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
' Open the file containing the client details
Set sourcedoc = Documents.Open(FileName:="e:\worddocs\Clients.doc")
' Get the number or clients = number of rows in the table of client
details less one
i = sourcedoc.Tables(1).Rows.Count - 1
' Get the number of columns in the table of client details
j = sourcedoc.Tables(1).Columns.Count
' Set the number of columns in the Listbox to match
' the number of columns in the table of client details
ListBox1.ColumnCount = j
' Define an array to be loaded with the client data
Dim MyArray() As Variant
'Load client data into MyArray
ReDim MyArray(i, j)
For n = 0 To j - 1
For m = 0 To i - 1
Set myitem = sourcedoc.Tables(1).Cell(m + 2, n + 1).Range
myitem.End = myitem.End - 1
MyArray(m, n) = myitem.Text
Next m
Next n
' Load data into ListBox1
ListBox1.List() = MyArray
' Close the file containing the client details
sourcedoc.Close SaveChanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges
End Sub

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim i As Integer, Addressee As String
Addressee = ""
For i = 1 To ListBox1.ColumnCount
ListBox1.BoundColumn = i
Addressee = Addressee & ListBox1.Value & vbCr
Next i
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Addressee").Range.InsertAfter Addressee
UserForm2.Hide
End Sub

The Initialize statement will populate the listbox with the data from the
table and then when a client is selected in from the list and the command
button is clicked, the information for that client will be inserted into a
bookmark in the document. You may want to vary the manner in which it is
inserted to suit our exact requirements, but hopefully this will get you
started.

To make it easy for you, the code has been written so that it will deal with
any number of clients and any number of details about each client. It
assumes that the first row of the table containing the client details is a
header row.


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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[voip1234]

Doug, thanks for that code, but I truly dont know how to fit this to my
issue (I am new to programming).
I am receiving the vFiles array from another function and I cant do
anything about that. I have to work with that....vFiles is a 1
dimensional array....I need to put that on the first column of a
listbox and on the second column I need to put a string....
I have been able to do this fine using additem when I control both
columns, but in this case, I dont control vFiles.
My problem lies in that after I insert vFiles array into my listbox, my
second column seems to disappear....how would you go about solving
that? I looked at the help files in vb editor and saw many examples
about populating a two column listbox with a two column array...but
none that looks like my case.
thank you

 

[voip1234]

I figured it out....dont know if its the most efficient way to do it,
but
i first find out the size of the vFiles array using lbound and ubound
then I creat a new array and copy it there into one column and
the string into the second column...then I populate the listbox using
that array.
thank you