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Default Add Text to Shape

What's a table?

Is it a picture of that range or what?

Paige wrote:

Sorry I didn't explain myself well enough here. Am actually trying to insert
a small table into the shape; the table spans 3 columns and 5 rows.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

I'm not sure if the problem you're having is the concatenation of those values
or if the string is too long when you try to plop it into the rectangle.

But this may give you an idea:

Option Explicit
Sub testme()

Dim shp As Shape
Dim sText As String
Dim mySubStr As String
Dim myCell As Range
Dim myRng As Range
Dim iCtr As Long

With ActiveSheet
Set shp = .Shapes("Rectangle 1")
Set myRng = .Range("s10:u45")

sText = ""
For Each myCell In myRng.Cells
sText = sText & " " & myCell.Text
Next myCell

If Len(sText) 0 Then
sText = Mid(sText, 2)
End If

iCtr = 1
Do While iCtr < Len(sText)
mySubStr = Mid(sText, iCtr, 250)
shp.TextFrame.Characters(iCtr).Insert String:=mySubStr
iCtr = iCtr + 250
Loop

End With
End Sub




Paige wrote:

I have the following code (from Tom Ogilvy) that I'm using to put certain
text into a shape; however, cannot figure out how to modify this to
accommodate a range of cells (like S10:U45) versus just one cell. Tried
using a range name also, but that doesn't work. Can someone help me
understand how to do this please?

Dim shp As Shape
Set shp = ActiveSheet.Shapes("Rectangle 1")
sText = Range("A249").Text
shp.TextFrame.Characters.Text = sText


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