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Coding a table of constants

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Bear - 03 Jan 2006 15:29 GMT
I need to use 2 x 20 and 3 x 20 arrays of constants in my code for loading
list or combo boxes.

Surely there must be some easier, more visually coherent way to do this than
specifying the contents of each element of the array. Ideally, I'd like to
list them comma-delimeted:

Item01 = "CB1, Column Break, modCb190"
Item02 = "CB2, Column Break, modCb198"
Item03 = "Date 1, Date Field, datRc224"
...

Any way to do this sort of thing? Snippets of sample code would be
appreciated.

Bear
Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 03 Jan 2006 16:30 GMT
Put them in a table in a document and use code such as the following to load
them into the listbox

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

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.

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 to use 2 x 20 and 3 x 20 arrays of constants in my code for loading
> list or combo boxes.
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>
> Bear
Bear - 03 Jan 2006 17:15 GMT
Doug:

Thanks a bunch. Using an external table was going to be my next evolution of
the project. I may just leap ahead -- but I'd sure like to know if there's a
better way of filling up an array in VBA, so as to improve my VBA chops.

Bear
Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 03 Jan 2006 18:58 GMT
I would take the leap.  It's much easier to maintain the list of items if
it's not buried somewhere in your code.

The Split function works very nicely for a one dimensional array.  For more
than one dimension, I would iterate through a table, but then you may as
well go straight to populating the listbox.

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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

> Doug:
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> Bear

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