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Editing static information in template through a form

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Mizpah - 01 Dec 2006 19:42 GMT
It's been awhile since I've created a template in Word with VBA and I
am racking my brain on how to do this. It seems like it should be
simple, but I need some refreshing.

I am trying to modify an existing template. The template has a group of
modules that contains the information (contact person, address, phone,
fax, etc. . . ) for a patricular company. There is one module per
company. When the user begins a new document off of the template all
the user has to do is select the company from a drop-down box and the
appropriate formfields are populated by the information read off of the
corresponding module.

However the users occasionaly find that the contact person or phone
numbers change and they need to update the information. I can update it
manually by opening up the template and change the data in the
corresponding template, but I would like to enable the user to do it
themselves. I can create a userform where they can type in their
corrections, but I would like to make it so the static information in
the modules are permanetly updated too by the user.

As things are now, the user opens a document from the template. Is it
possible for the user to change and save the template through the
document they've opened? If so how would I write the code to make
changes to the corresponding modules by the user?

Thanks in advance
Jay Freedman - 02 Dec 2006 01:44 GMT
Exactly what do you mean by "modules"? Are these modules of VBA code,
as seen in the Project pane of the VBA editor? If not, what are they?

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>It's been awhile since I've created a template in Word with VBA and I
>am racking my brain on how to do this. It seems like it should be
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>Thanks in advance
Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 02 Dec 2006 05:25 GMT
See the article "How to create a Userform" at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm

This routine loads a listbox on a UserForm 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.

Signature

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

> It's been awhile since I've created a template in Word with VBA and I
> am racking my brain on how to do this. It seems like it should be
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> Thanks in advance
Mizpah - 07 Dec 2006 00:37 GMT
Thanks for the help. I am sorry that I didn't word it better. I have
decided to attempt to do this using Access. Because of Doug's Idea to
create a table, it began to look like a database, so I fired up Access.
So far I am off to a good start, and it seems to work better than I
first hoped.

Thanks again!

> See the article "How to create a Userform" at:
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> > Thanks in advance
 
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