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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / July 2005Copying text from one section of a document to another??
I need a means in VBA or similar to copy all text from a user entered section of a document to another section of the same document and preserve all formatting and text. Is this possible? I had been using the STYLEREF for this but the problem is I may have multiple paragraphs in the section with the given style and it seems STYLEREF only copies the last paragraph of text. With VBA, you can use Range.FormattedText For example, if you had a bookmark name "target" where you want the text to be replicated and that text was selected, you could use ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("target").Range.FormattedText = Selection.Range.FormattedText  SignatureHope 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 >I need a means in VBA or similar to copy all text from a user entered >section of a document to another section of the same document and preserve >all formatting and text. Is this possible? > I had been using the STYLEREF for this but the problem is I may have > multiple paragraphs in the section with the given style and it seems > STYLEREF only copies the last paragraph of text. So the only way would be with a bookmark? The issue is the user is going to type this text and it may be too easy for them to delete the bookmark I would think when they start typing. > With VBA, you can use Range.FormattedText > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >> multiple paragraphs in the section with the given style and it seems >> STYLEREF only copies the last paragraph of text. The bookmark was at the location to which you wanted the text copied, not the location at which the user would type the text. The user would have to select the text that was to be copied. SignatureHope 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 > So the only way would be with a bookmark? > The issue is the user is going to type this text and it may be too easy [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >>> multiple paragraphs in the section with the given style and it seems >>> STYLEREF only copies the last paragraph of text. Ok thanks. This needs to be as automated as possible so selecting the text is not really an option. > The bookmark was at the location to which you wanted the text copied, not > the location at which the user would type the text. The user would have [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >>>> multiple paragraphs in the section with the given style and it seems >>>> STYLEREF only copies the last paragraph of text. Hi ML, A bookmark isn't necessary. What *is* necessary is a completely unabiguous means of defining the source and destination locations. if you can do that, then you can define Range object variables that mark them, and so do the copy using the FormattedText method. Before anybody can give you a code sample for that, we need you to see if you can describe the source and destination locations. SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup Keep your VBA code safe, sign the ClassicVB petition www.classicvb.org > Ok thanks. This needs to be as automated as possible so selecting the > text is not really an option. [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >>>>> multiple paragraphs in the section with the given style and it seems >>>>> STYLEREF only copies the last paragraph of text. The destination I can mark with anything required as the user does not edit anything near the location. The issue is the source which must allow for user content. What options are there for marking it that can then be selected with a range? > Hi ML, > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >>>>>> multiple paragraphs in the section with the given style and it seems >>>>>> STYLEREF only copies the last paragraph of text. > The destination I can mark with anything required as the user does not > edit anything near the location. The issue is the source which must allow > for user content. What options are there for marking it that can then be > selected with a range? Most elements within a document have a Range property. Every Character, Word, Sentence, Paragraph, Table, Row, Cell has a range. For instance, if you can define the source text as occupying the first paragraph of the first cell of the second row of the first table in the document, then we can code that and do the transfer. SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup Keep your VBA code safe, sign the ClassicVB petition www.classicvb.org Well, the section I want to copy will have a specific style used for the text it encompasses. There may be other styles within but the start and end should be the style I want. Is it possible to select all of this? >> The destination I can mark with anything required as the user does not >> edit anything near the location. The issue is the source which must [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > first cell of the second row of the first table in the document, then we > can code that and do the transfer. I am trying to do the same thing - My document is split up by each page being a seperate section (to achieve different headers/footers per page). I want to dump EVERYTHING from the 2nd section/page on into the 1st section. Or would it be easier to just delete the section breaks automatically somehow... Thanks for your time! > Hi ML, > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > >>>>> multiple paragraphs in the section with the given style and it seems > >>>>> STYLEREF only copies the last paragraph of text. |
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