I am trying to make a userform that will automatically populate a template
with the address of a building by using the building description. Let me
explain:
Our company has 3 different buildings; West, North, and South.
The address for West is 1234 Main Street, Anywhere, GT, 23456
The address for North is 9000 Marlon Way, Anywhere, GT, 25678
The address for South is 2955 Talapia Loop, Anywhere, GT, 11109
Ideally, the listbox will have the following
ListBox1.List = Array("West", "North", "South")
But when the user chooses "West" for example, the bookmark should have the
address look like the following (I am sure I will have to use &VbCr to
format correctly) in the document:
1234 Main Street
Anywhere, GT, 23456
Thanks for any advice.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 28 Oct 2005 05:15 GMT
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.
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services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
>I am trying to make a userform that will automatically populate a template
> with the address of a building by using the building description. Let me
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> Thanks for any advice.
DieSpammersDie - 28 Oct 2005 14:04 GMT
Whew! That's alot, but it is too complicated for my needs. Really, all I
need is to have 3 options in the listbox; West, North, and South. If the
user selects one of those then the real address is passed to the template.
I don't need to read any data from a file or anything like that. One day I
might, but I am brand new to the userform world and am trying to take small
steps.
> This routine loads a listbox with client details stored in a table in a
> separate
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> > Thanks for any advice.
Greg - 28 Oct 2005 16:12 GMT
Spamkiller,
You could set your bookmark value based on a test of the ListBox value.
Something like:
Sub CommmandButtonWhatever_Click()
Select Case Me.ListBox1.Value
Case "West"
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Text1").Range _
.InsertBefore "123 Mary Street" & vbCr & "Anytown, CT"
Case "South"
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Text1").Range _
.InsertBefore "123 Joe Street" & vbCr & "Anytown, CT"
Case "North"
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Text1").Range _
.InsertBefore "123 Sally Street" & vbCr & "Anytown, CT"
End Select
End Sub
DieSpammersDie - 30 Oct 2005 00:48 GMT
AWESOME! Few minor changes and viola! worked great. Thanks...
> Spamkiller,
>
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> End Select
> End Sub
Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 28 Oct 2005 18:17 GMT
Might seem like a lot, but just about all of the work has been done for you
and it makes it much easier to add another entry or change and address than
if you code it directly in the form.

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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
> Whew! That's alot, but it is too complicated for my needs. Really, all
> I
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>> > Thanks for any advice.