Excel to Word doc / File Patch -> cell

[beczer]

Hi there

I am not advanced Vba programmer and I need your help. Could please review my code and tell how to change the DOC(template) file path ? In other words, I would like to use 3 different word templates so I can't put file path in VBA code as it is. I need to put a reference to cell where there is a file path.
A1 - C:\Users\Tom\Desktop\doc1.docx
A2 - C:\Users\Tom\Desktop\doc2.docx
A3 - C:\Users\Tom\Desktop\doc1.docx

Another thing, I would also like to add a possiblity to save DOCs and PDFs in created folder by VBA.

My current VBA code:

Sub CreateWordTemplate()




    Dim wdApp As Word.Application
    Dim SaveName As String
    Dim FileExt As String
    Set wdApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")


    With wdApp
        '.Visible = True
        '.Activate
        
        .Documents.Add "C:\Users\name\Desktop\doc1.docx"




    Range("A1", Range("A1").End(xlDown).End(xlToRight)).Copy
        
    
    .Selection.GoTo What:=-1, Name:="bookmark1"
    .Selection.PasteSpecial


FileExt = ".pdf"
                            
                 SaveName = Environ("UserProfile") & "\Desktop\doc1.docx " & _
        Format(Now, "yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss") & ".pdf"




                .ActiveDocument.ExportAsFixedFormat OutputFileName:=SaveName, ExportFormat:=17
              
        
       SaveName = Environ("UserProfile") & "\Desktop\doc1.docx " & _
        Format(Now, "yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss") & ".docx"




    If .Version <= 12 Then
        .ActiveDocument.SaveAs SaveName
    Else
    .ActiveDocument.SaveAs2 SaveName
    End If


    .ActiveDocument.Close
    .Quit


    End With


    Set wdApp = Nothing
End Sub

Thank you in advance !!!

Tomasz

 

[Sektor]

Dim rng As Range
Set rng = Range("A1:A3")
....
.Documents.Add rng(1) 'A1
'.Documents.Add rng(2) 'A2
'.Documents.Add rng(3) 'A3

 

[beczer]

Hi Sektor, thanks for quick reply. Unfortunately it doesn't work. I think I did something wrong. Could you pls take a look ?

Sub CreateBasicWordReport()

    Dim wdApp As Word.Application
    Dim SaveName As String
    Dim FileExt As String
    Dim rng As Range
    Set rng = Range("A1:A3")
    Set wdApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")


    With wdApp
        '.Visible = True
        '.Activate
        
        .Documents.Add rng(1) 'A1
        .Documents.Add rng(2) 'A2
        .Documents.Add rng(3) 'A3

 

[Sektor]

Try .Documents.Open

 

[beczer]

The same

 

[Sektor]

Oh, uncomment lines:

[COLOR=#333333]'.Visible = True[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333]'.Activate[/COLOR]

 

[beczer]

Sektor, I'm really gratefull for your support but it still doesn't work (

 

[Sektor]

I am sorry for not carefully reading your post. You're talking about templates rather documents. Templates have extensions DOTX (macro-free) and DOTM (with macro) and DOT (for Word < 2007). As I see, you have DOCX file extension - which is not template but rather ordinary document.

 

[beczer]

Yes I know but it is not a problem. I changed it before so it is fine. Anyway it still doesn't work

VBA error -> .Documents.Add rng(1) 'A1

 

[Macropod]

beczer: there are numerous problem with your code, but I guess you knew that already.

One thing that isn't clear is why you're using the Documents.Add method for an existing document instead of using it for a template or, alternatively, why you're not using the Documents.Open method for the existing document.

Another oddity is your retention of the .docx extension in the middle of the output filenames - for both the document and the pdf.

You also refer to saving the outputs to a folder created by VBA, which is quite possible, but you given no indication of how that folder's name might be determined.

Try the following code. It generates output files from your data in A1-A3.

Sub CreateWordOutputs()
Dim wdApp As Word.Application, wdDoc As Word.Document
Dim xlWkSht As Worksheet, StrName As String, i As Long
'Define our worksheet
Set xlWkSht = ActiveSheet
'Initialize Word
Set wdApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
With wdApp
  'Loop through A1-A3 for our filenames
  For i = 1 To 3
    StrName = xlWkSht.Range("A" & i).Value
    'Open the file
    Set wdDoc = .Documents.Open(StrName)
    'Reconfigue the filename for output usage
    StrName = Split(StrName, .docx)(0) & " " & Format(Now, "yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss")
    'Get our data
    xlWkSht.Range("A1", Range("A1").End(xlDown).End(xlToRight)).Copy
    With wdDoc
      'Add the data to our document
      .Bookmarks("bookmark1").Range.Paste
      'Save our document as both a Word document and as a PDF
      .SaveAs Filename:=StrName & ".docx", FileFormat:=wdFormatXMLDocument, AddToRecentFiles:=False
      .SaveAs Filename:=StrName & ".pdf", FileFormat:=wdFormatPDF, AddToRecentFiles:=False
      'Close our file without re-saving
      .Close False
    End With
  Next
  'Exit Word
  .Quit
End With
'Cleanup
Set wdDoc = Nothing: Set wdApp = Nothing: Set xlWkSht = Nothing
End Sub