- #MS WORD 2016 MACROS HOW TO#
- #MS WORD 2016 MACROS UPDATE#
- #MS WORD 2016 MACROS CODE#
- #MS WORD 2016 MACROS PLUS#
When Word runs ChangeSocietyName, first it will execute the original Find and Replace function.
#MS WORD 2016 MACROS CODE#
That’s right: You don’t have to enter all the code you just created, just the name of the macro. Below the Find and Replace code, but before End Sub, enter ClearFindReplace (without parentheses at the end). Now we’ll go back to the ChangeSocietyName macro. ' Clear Text from Find and Replace dialog The command near the end is equivalent to clicking the “Replace All” button. As you can see, it specifies values for each option in the Find and Replace dialog, including the text and replacement text in quotation marks. Then we get to the meat of the code: the code that performs the Find and Replace operation. The quotation marks tell VBA to ignore any statements on those lines. Lines preceded by single quotation marks are for comments. The “sub” on the first line is short for “subroutine,” a small program that can run on its own or as part of a larger VBA application. Replacement.Text = "Dental Antiques Preservation League"
Text = "Society for the Preservation of Antique Dental Appliances" ' Rename Society for the Preservation of Antique Dental Appliances As you can see, Word has just written a macro that performs the Find and Replace. Focus instead on the window containing the code. It may look daunting, but you can ignore the menus and most of the panels. On the right, under Main Tabs, check the Developer option. If you haven’t done so already, you’ll have to enable the Developer tab. You can begin with a new blank document or open an existing one.
#MS WORD 2016 MACROS UPDATE#
Now you need an easy way to update the docs. Then suddenly, the board votes to change the name to the Dental Antiques Preservation League. You have dozens of Word documents about historic dentures and the like, all with society’s name prominently mentioned. In this example, you’re the esteemed president of the Society for the Preservation of Antique Dental Appliances.
#MS WORD 2016 MACROS HOW TO#
Here we’ll show you one simple but useful example: How to automate Word’s Find and Replace function. If you’re adventurous, you can easily modify the macro for an extra degree of automation. With a click on a button, Word will record your actions, generating a macro that you can replay as often as you’d like. We’re speaking of macros, and though the feature relies on Microsoft’s Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), you can use it even if the idea of coding gives you the heebie-jeebies. To make this macro work, make sure you declare sNameParts as a string array.Tired of performing repetitive tasks in Microsoft Word? Buried within the program is a powerful automation tool that can take those jobs off your hands. If you aren't sure how long the filename extension will be for the original file, you can rely on the Split function to pull it apart, if desired: These are stripped off and the ".docx" extension added.
#MS WORD 2016 MACROS PLUS#
The code assumes that the last four characters of sOrigName contain the filename extension (the period plus three characters). Online research has led to suggestions involving manipulation of the normal template but I've not been able to find the relevant files, including normal.dotm, prenormal.dotm, normalpre.dotm and others suggested in various threads. SDocName = Left(sOrigName, Len(sOrigName) - 4) Word 2016 Macros Missing I've worked with MS Word for many years and use many macros, but recently relaunches of the program have resulted in the loss of all macros. In an existing macro, the only thing left to do would be to set up sDocName with the filename that is desired.Īssuming that you have saved your original text file name into the variable sOrigName, you could use the following code to change the extension to. The name of the file is stored in the sDocName variable, and the setting for the FileFormat property indicates that you want the document saved in the Word format. Consider the following code snippet, which saves a document in Word format:ĪctiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:=sDocName, _ The steps to actually save the file are relatively easy. Anthony would like to have the macro save the file using the same root name as the original text file, only changing it to Word format, as in filename.docx. He is wondering what commands he should add to his macro to automate the last step of saving the data.
After the formatting macro is complete, Anthony manually uses "Save As" for each report to save it as a Word document. He then uses macros to format this imported information. Anthony regularly imports multiple reports, in text files (i.e, filename.txt), into Word.