[AccessD] Help With Word Basic

Well that was almost a bravissimo Jeff. Using Paste Special and telling it
paste just text overcomes the table stuff but the merge field that's in the
middle of what I'm pasting comes in as text too, ie <<MyField>> as text, and
the subsequent Mailmerge therefore ignores it. Great try Jeff, but not
quite.

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Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk



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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Help With Word Basic
Date: 14/05/04 13:55

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> What if on the paste event in word you use paste special and then
> unformatted text?
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> I justify posing this here on the tenuous grounds that it is VBA and it's
> probably of interest to others who have Access systems that interface to
> Word.
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> I have a mailmerge system running nicely to produce quotations. What I
want
> to do now is vary one of the paragraphs according to two criteria. The
> alternative paras still need to be held in Word so that the user can
easily
> alter and can format them. These paras also contain one or two merge
> fields.
> My solution, which I though reasonably elegant, was to set up a new doc
> specifically for these alternative paragraphs with a table containing 3
> columns and several rows. The first column is purely descriptive. The
> second
> and third columns hold versions of the text. So what I can do is calculate
> a
> column and a row index from my data and pick the appropriate cell in the
> table. So far so pretty good. But then we encounter the horrors of Word
> Basic. What I've managed to achieve is opening the doc, and pointing a
> Selection object at the cell. But how to get the contents of that cell
into
> my main doc? If I use the Copy method what gets copied to the clipboard is
> a
> complete cell not just its contents, and pasting it back brings in a
> single-cell table complete with border and formatted accordingly. But I
> only
> want to copy the cell contents. I can do it manually but can't for the
life
> of me see how to do it in code. The selection object has a Text property,
> but you can't Copy that, and even if you could I don't know what that
would
> do with the embedded merge field. Can someone (Bryan for example?) help?
> Where am I going wrong. I always have this kind of trouble with Word
Basic,
> it's a nightmare unless you've got an example to work from.
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