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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / March 2008Edit autotext entries
Hello, I have a template with several autotext entries. The entries are different addresses that can be entered in the footer area with a macro button. I'm looking for a way to edit parts of the autotext entries without having to insert them, edit them in the document and re-save them with the same name. Sorry, there is no way to do this. Autotext entries, themselves, cannot be edited in Word.  SignatureEnjoy, Tony > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > entries without having to insert them, edit them in the document and > re-save them with the same name. On 6 Mar, 17:50, "Tony Jollans" <My forename at my surname dot com> wrote: > Sorry, there is no way to do this. Autotext entries, themselves, cannot be > edited in Word. This seems strange. It is possible to add autotext entries through VBA, it seem to me there should be a way to edit them too. -- Fredrik. E. Nilsen http://fenilsen.wordpress.com You can do through VBA the same as you can do through the UI - that is, add AutoText entries but not change them. SignatureEnjoy, Tony > On 6 Mar, 17:50, "Tony Jollans" <My forename at my surname dot com> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Fredrik. E. Nilsen > http://fenilsen.wordpress.com On 6 Mar, 18:39, "Tony Jollans" <My forename at my surname dot com> wrote: > You can do through VBA the same as you can do through the UI - that is, add > AutoText entries but not change them. Ok, thanks for helping! -- Fredrik E. Nilsen http://fenilsen.wordpress.com You pull in the contents of an AutoText, delete that AutoText, edit what you pulled in, and create the AutoText with the same name. This seems bad form to me. In any case, that is the best you can do. There is no editing of an AutoText entry itself. >On 6 Mar, 18:39, "Tony Jollans" <My forename at my surname dot com> >wrote: [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >Fredrik E. Nilsen >http://fenilsen.wordpress.com You _can_ actually change the contents of an AutoText without inserting the AutoText. You do this by setting the Value property. Example: you want to replace the string “abc” in all AutoText entries in a specific template (here MyTemplate) with “12345”. To do this: Dim oAutoText As AutoTextEntry For Each oAutoText In MyTemplate.AutoTextEntries oAutoText.Value = Replace(oAutoText.Value, "abc", "12345") Next oAutoText SignatureRegards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word > You pull in the contents of an AutoText, delete that AutoText, edit what you > pulled in, and create the AutoText with the same name. This seems bad form [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >Fredrik E. Nilsen > >http://fenilsen.wordpress.com > You _can_ actually change the contents of an AutoText without inserting the > AutoText. You do this by setting the Value property. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > oAutoText.Value = Replace(oAutoText.Value, "abc", "12345") > Next oAutoText Ah, fantastic. I found no information about this in the help file. Thank you very much! -- Fredrik E. Nilsen http://fenilsen.wordpress.com
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