How to insert text in a document based on selection?

M

Max

Hi,
I have a document that is used as a starting point by many users. This
document is used in different scenarios, but based on the specific
scenario, some parts of the document need to be changed
automatically.
The idea is to have some sort of selection box come up when the
document is open, where the user would select among 4 options. Based
on the selection, certain parts of the document would be changed to
match. (As a bonus, it would be really nice if the text that is
inserted could be stored in a separate file, so that it could be
changed without editing the macro).

I would appreciate any help in getting this started.

Thank you.
 
M

Max

All of those seem to be designed for protected forms. I cannot user
protected forms as the document will be edited after the text is
inserted. Is there a sample macro that would do it for a regular
document?

Thank you.
 
D

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

See the article "How to create a Userform" at:

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

and the following pages of fellow MVP Greg Maxey's website :

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and_employ_a_UserForm.htm

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Populate_UserForm_ListBox.htm

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:="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

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim i As Integer, j As Long, k As Long
Dim MyString As String

MyString = ""
j = 0
With ListBox1
For i = 0 To .ListCount - 1
'..and check whether each is selected
If ListBox1.selected(i) Then
j = j + 1
End If
Next i
If j > 1 Then
k = 0
For i = 0 To .ListCount - 1
If .selected(i) Then
k = k + 1
If k = 1 Then
MyString = MyString & .list(i, 1)
ElseIf k < j Then
MyString = MyString & "; " & .list(i, 1)
Else
MyString = MyString & " and " & .list(i, 1)
End If
End If
Next i
Else
For i = 0 To .ListCount - 1
If .selected(i) Then
MyString = .list(i, 1)
End If
Next i
End If
End With
MsgBox MyString
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.


--
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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
 

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