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Huck Rorick - 26 Jan 2005 02:07 GMT

I am moving from WordPerfect. I have a macro in word perfect that allows me
to highlight a piece of text and then append it to another file that is not
currently open. This is a quick and handy way for me to put text into
different files without having to open each file, paste the text, then close
it and open another file, etc.

does anyone know if this can be done in Word, and if so, how?

thanks for any help,

Huck

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Graham Mayor - 26 Jan 2005 04:56 GMT

You can copy selected text to a new document with the following macro

Sub CopySelectedToNewDoc()
On Error GoTo oops
Selection.Copy
Documents.Add
Selection.Paste
End
oops:
MsgBox "Select the text you wish to copy first!"
End Sub

If you want to copy it to a particular document then you need to add the
extra code in place of Documents.Add

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm and
http://www.gmayor.com/copying_selected_text.htm

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> I am moving from WordPerfect. I have a macro in word perfect that
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Huck Rorick - 27 Jan 2005 04:12 GMT

Thank you very much.
I'm sorry to be so ignorant, but what code does one use to specify an
existing document? (And where can I look that sort of thing up? i.e. in
what part of Help?)

thanks

Huck

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Graham Mayor - 27 Jan 2005 05:31 GMT

Documents.Open FileName:="""D:\path\filename.doc"""

You could start with investigating the macro recorder and the vba help that
accompanies the vba editor. There is lots of help on vba in the mvps web
site (link in sig. block) and you can get help on the details from the
excellent vba newsgroups on this news server.

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> Thank you very much.
> I'm sorry to be so ignorant, but what code does one use to specify an
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