[AccessD] Help With Word Basic

Thanks Marty

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

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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of 
> MartyConnelly
> Sent: 14 May 2004 21:05
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Help With Word Basic
> 
> 
> If you are looking for Word VBA examples hunt around here
> 
>  http://word.mvps.org/Tutorials/index.htm
> 
> and here is a list of sites
> http://www.mvps.org/links.html#Word
> 
> Cindy Meister's is good for mail merge problems 
> http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/
> 
> Andy Lacey wrote:
> 
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >--
> >Andy Lacey
> >http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
> >
> >
> >
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> -- 
> Marty Connelly
> Victoria, B.C.
> Canada
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