Cleaning up Macro to Copy Word Formfields into Excel

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With help from macropod in the Word General Group and Jean-Yves in this group
I think I have a start on copying all the Formfield data from a series of
Word files into Excel. But I'm stuck on a command I do not fully understand.
The intent of the code is to:
1. Dim and initialize all the variables, etc.
2. Get the first filename in a directory that holds all the relevant files
3. Open each file in turn (THIS IS THE PROBLEM AREA SO FAR)
4. Read each FormField in the open file
5. Set a cell via offsets to each Formfield value
6. Close the document and repeat from step 3
7. Quit Word and clear the objects

Here is my code so far:
Sub WordToExcel()
Dim wdApp As Word.Application
Dim wdDoc As Word.Document
Dim x As Integer
Dim y As Integer
Dim strFilename As String
Dim temp As String
Dim oFld As FormField

Set wdApp = New Word.Application
'initialise counter
x = 1
y = 1
'search for first file in directory
strFilename = Dir("C:/AAA-TriageHolder/*.doc")
Do While strFilename <> ""
Set wdDoc = wdApp.Documents.Open(strFilename) '//Error message results
here
With wdDoc
For Each oFld In wdDoc
temp = oFld.Result
Range("A2").Offset(x, y) = temp
y = y + 1
Next oFld
End With

wdDoc.Close
x = x + 1
strFilename = Dir
Loop
wdApp.Quit
Set wdDoc = Nothing
Set wdApp = Nothing

End Sub

As noted above, I get an error when I run the macro saying:

Run-time error '5174':
This file could not be found.
Try one or more of the following:
*Check the spelling of the name of the document.
*Try a different file name.
(A12345.doc)

The A12345.doc is the first file in the directory, so it is clearly seeing
it in order to set the strFilename, so why can it not then find the file.

Any help greatly appreciated.
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[Barb Reinhardt]

You probably need to include the full path, not just the filename.

 

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Thanks Barb, I can see what you mean, so I need to modify this line, right:

strFilename = Dir("C:/AAA-TriageHolder/*.doc")

How would I change it to get it to include the path? Would this work?

strFilename = Dir("C:/AAA-TriageHolder/*.doc")
strFilename = "C:/AAA-TriageHolder/" & strFilename

Thanks for the quick response.
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OK, Adjusted for the path and got it to open the file. Now it gets to:

For Each oFld in wdDoc

And I get a
Run-time error '438':
Object doesn't support this property or method

Help very appreciated.
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[Dave Peterson]

Untested.

Dim oFld As Word.FormField
....

For Each oFld In wdDoc.FormFields

 

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Thanks Dave,
Yes, that fixed it, or rather using just .FormField fixed it (including the
Word gave a wierd error about trying to open some other Excel file)
I now have it working to read in the first form, and it actually opens the
subsequent forms and goes through them apparently collecting the form field
data, but it only puts the data from the first form in Excel.

The only change i made to the code was to add "On Error Resume Next" after
the temp=oFld.Result line because if the formfield was blank it would bomb
out. (is there a better way to handle that error?)

I also inserted a few MsgBox commands so I can confirm that the strFilename
variable is updating correctly, which it is.
Thanks again for your help, both past and future.
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[Dave Peterson]

That doesn't sound like the best approach to me. But I don't know enough about
MSWord to know if that's true.

I'd ask in a forum dedicated to MSWord for a better approach.

But if you're only looking to populate a single form field, can't you refer to
it by its name--not loop through all of them?

 

[Mike Fogleman]

Put in a MsgBox for Temp to see if it is gathering the fields properly.
Trap for an empty FormField, not On Error Resume Next

For Each oFld In wdDoc
If LEN(oFld.Result) = 0 Then
Range("A2").Offset(x, y) = ""
Else
Temp = oFld.Result
Msg Temp
Range("A2").Offset(x, y) = temp
End If
y = y + 1
Next oFld

Mike F

 

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In this case there are about 150 form fields on the form, of which I need to
capture about 1/2 of them. But not all of them have bookmarks, which I think
is the only way to name them, at least that I know of, so on a post in the
Word group this technique was suggested. If there is a way to reference a
formfield that does not have a bookmark I would love to know about it.
Thanks for your help.

 

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Thanks for your help Mike,
Unfortunately that code still hangs. Not sure what the story is with these
forms but there are some form fields that are blank in a strange way

i.e. normally on a Word form what I've seen is the blank fields have several
small circles to hold the place for the entry. This form has those in some
places but in others there is just a grayed area about the width of 3
periods/pixels. This was the first place the code hung up, and your solution
worked there.

But in other places there seems to be no indication of a formfield and yet
the code to step through every form field seems to find one and enters a
value in excel. It is at those points that your code fails with the Run-time
error 5825 'object has been deleted'. Not sure how to handle that other than
with the Resme Next, which works??
Thanks again for your help.
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[Dave Peterson]

Sounds like you should visit a forum dedicated to MSWord.

In this case there are about 150 form fields on the form, of which I need to
capture about 1/2 of them. But not all of them have bookmarks, which I think
is the only way to name them, at least that I know of, so on a post in the
Word group this technique was suggested. If there is a way to reference a
formfield that does not have a bookmark I would love to know about it.
Thanks for your help.