VBA, Bookmarks, Word and Excel... help please!
 

Greetings,

I'm a seasoned software person who's never touched VBA or any kind of
Microsoft application programming, and I find I have a problem I need
to solve quickly. I could probably muddle through books and bash my way
to a solution in a few days, but any pointers as to the right direction
would be GREATLY appreciated!

In short, I have a Word document with a few hundred bookmarks; each
bookmark highlights a bit of requirement text (actually, more than one
document, but I digress...)

I need to create an Excel sheet that has one row per requirement.
There needs to be a column that captures the bookmarked text from the
Word document, and another column with a hyperlink to that bookmark.

Again, I have yet to look at a single line of VBA code. Can anyone
point me towards the right objects, methods, etc.? I suppose I need to
iterate through a bookmark collection, extract the text, and add a row
to the spreadsheet.

Also, where would I actually code this... in the Excel application, or
the Word application (or does it matter)?

Thanks much for any pointers!

Dan Masi

VBA, Bookmarks, Word and Excel... help please!
 

See the article "Control Excel from Word" at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/InterDev/C...XLFromWord.htm


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Greetings,

I'm a seasoned software person who's never touched VBA or any kind of
Microsoft application programming, and I find I have a problem I need
to solve quickly. I could probably muddle through books and bash my way
to a solution in a few days, but any pointers as to the right direction
would be GREATLY appreciated!

In short, I have a Word document with a few hundred bookmarks; each
bookmark highlights a bit of requirement text (actually, more than one
document, but I digress...)

I need to create an Excel sheet that has one row per requirement.
There needs to be a column that captures the bookmarked text from the
Word document, and another column with a hyperlink to that bookmark.

Again, I have yet to look at a single line of VBA code. Can anyone
point me towards the right objects, methods, etc.? I suppose I need to
iterate through a bookmark collection, extract the text, and add a row
to the spreadsheet.

Also, where would I actually code this... in the Excel application, or
the Word application (or does it matter)?

Thanks much for any pointers!

Dan Masi

VBA, Bookmarks, Word and Excel... help please!
 

Both Excel and Word have macro recorders. To get help with syntax, turn on
the macro recorder found under the tools=Macros menu and perform the action
manually. (for example edit a bookmark).

Then turn it off and look at the recorded code. It will have thinks like
Object.select selection.Property = code because that is what you did
manually. Generally you can replace the select / selection pair and put the
property with the object.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Doug Robbins" wrote in message
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See the article "Control Excel from Word" at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/InterDev/C...XLFromWord.htm


--
Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be
interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a
paid
consulting basis.

Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
wrote in message
oups.com...
Greetings,

I'm a seasoned software person who's never touched VBA or any kind of
Microsoft application programming, and I find I have a problem I need
to solve quickly. I could probably muddle through books and bash my way
to a solution in a few days, but any pointers as to the right direction
would be GREATLY appreciated!

In short, I have a Word document with a few hundred bookmarks; each
bookmark highlights a bit of requirement text (actually, more than one
document, but I digress...)

I need to create an Excel sheet that has one row per requirement.
There needs to be a column that captures the bookmarked text from the
Word document, and another column with a hyperlink to that bookmark.

Again, I have yet to look at a single line of VBA code. Can anyone
point me towards the right objects, methods, etc.? I suppose I need to
iterate through a bookmark collection, extract the text, and add a row
to the spreadsheet.

Also, where would I actually code this... in the Excel application, or
the Word application (or does it matter)?

Thanks much for any pointers!

Dan Masi