What dictates whether the user is completing a form for Job A, Job B or Job
C.
It is definitely not covered in your posts. The work-flow needs to be
established in the first instance.
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
Are you sure that it is a textbox into which you want the value to appear
and not a 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
Dim myitem As Range
Dim i As Long, j As Long, m As Long, n As Long
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
' Open the file containing the client details
' Modify the path in the following line so that it matches where you
saved Clients.doc
Set sourcedoc = Documents.Open(FileName:="c:\Company.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
Hi Doug,
Thanks for the code but I've already tried this approach and it just
caused a "deer in the headlights" look from my users. It is a textbox
on a Word userform I'm looking to populate and not a listbox with a
specific item from a specific cell in a table (it doesn't matter
whether the table is in Word, Excel or an Access DB). An example is
shown below:
Title Name Initials
JobA PersonA PAInit
JobB PersonB PBInit
JobC PersonC PCInit
The Job Title will never change in the table but the people in the Job
may change on a regular basis. My UserForm is used to fill out
details on a Word document and I need some text boxes to be auto
populated with the names of certain people based on their job title
when the UserForm Initializes and not give the user options to select
from as this has proved somewhat disastrous in the past with the users
selecting the wrong names, etc and not bothering to correct them. I
know that this is a training issue and have tried everything short of
a large mallet to get the staff to do this right so I'm trying to make
this as idiot proof as possible.
Another thing is that this table will be referenced by multiple
documents and each document will want to extract the name from a
specific cell in the table which will not change even if the person in
the job does. The UserForm in document A will always need the value
from the cell in row 2, column 2, and so on.
I hope someone can help me with this.
Many thanks...
