VBA Involving Paragraphs

[KenWilson1000]

Hi. I wonder if the following is possible in Word, using VBA.

I have approx. 20 different paragraphs of text on the same Word doc
entitled Core.doc. Can I identify each of these paragraphs with a
distinct name, such as Paragraph1, Paragraph3, etc. and then compose
a type of listbox from which to select several of these paragraphs, and
have my "combination" of chosen paragraphs then copied into a second,
open Word doc?

Example one: if I selected Paragraphs 9, 3, 20, 1, from the listbox,
and then pressed a button, these 4 paragraphs would be copied into the
other open Word doc, in that order.

If this is possible, could you please share with me the proper VBA code
to accomplish this. Thank you very, very much for your help.

Ken

 

[Jezebel]

Newtext = doc1.Paragraphs(9).Range & doc1.Paragraphs(3).Range ...

 

[KenWilson1000]

Jezebel, I appreciate your reply, but I need some more help, if
you would. How would I create a listbox with the 20 Paragraph
choices on a userform, and more importantly, using your code,
how would I "insert" or "place" the NewText you mentioned into
the other open Word doc? (I'm so much more familiar with Excel
VBA). Thank you for your help.

Ken

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

It is easy enough to create a list box that would contain the numbers of the
paragraphs and then insert the respective paragraphs into a document, but
getting them inserted in any order other than the order they are listed in
the listbox will be an issue.

See the article "How to find out which Items are selected in a Multi-Select
ListBox" at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/GetMultiSelectValues.htm

I would store the paragraphs in the cells of the second column of a two
column table in your core document and populate the cells in the first
column with the numbers.

This routine which 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, shows you
how to load the information into the listbox.

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.


--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Greg Maxey]

Ken,

As Doug points out, it would be hard to resolve the order you picked the
paragraph numbers using a multi-select listbox.

Here is an idea you might try. Create the userform with a listbox, label
(set the caption to nothing) and a command button.

Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
'Populate the Listbox with paragraph numbers and reset.
Dim myArray()
Me.ListBox1.List = Split("Reset,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8", ",") 'up to 20
End Sub


Private Sub ListBox1_Change()
'Build the caption value based on the order you select the paragraphs.
'If you mess up, then use the reset to start over.
If Me.ListBox1.Value = "Reset" Then
Me.Label1.Caption = ""
Else
If Len(Me.Label1.Caption) = 0 Then
Me.Label1.Caption = Me.Label1.Caption & Me.ListBox1.Value
Else
Me.Label1.Caption = Me.Label1.Caption & "-" & Me.ListBox1.Value
End If
End If
End Sub

When you are satisfied with the order displayed in the label caption then
execute

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim oDoc As Word.Document
Dim myText As String
Dim myArray
Dim i As Long
myArray = Split(Me.Label1.Caption, "-")
Set oDoc = Documents.Open("C:\Source.doc")
For i = 0 To UBound(myArray)
myText = myText & oDoc.Paragraphs(myArray(i)).Range.Text
Next
oDoc.Close
Selection.InsertAfter myText
Unload Me
End Sub



Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
Dim myArray()
Me.ListBox1.List = Split("Reset,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8", ",") 'up to 20
End Sub

 

[KenWilson1000]

I truly thank each of you for jumping in quickly and helping
with your code and ideas. Great generosity here.

Ken