Word Macro - Switch Values from table columns

[Sarahmueller]

Hello,

I have a word document, in which results of medicinical tests are documented.

Several tables are part of the document. In these tables, the results of tests for the current and the last weeks are stored.

Afterwards, an assesment by the responsible doctor is provided. Therefore, I have to work with word, and can´t just use excel.

The tables are looking as follows:

Name of patient	Current week	1 weeks ago
Name 1	X	Y
Name 2	X	Y

Table 1: Medication 1 (week 1)

I have tried to write a macro that automatically switches the values of the columns after application, so that the table looks as follows:

Name of patient	Current week	1 week ago
Name 1		X
		X

Table 1: Medication 1 (week 2)


I have tried 2 solutions:
1) Edit the tables in Word with record a macro: Doesn´t work, because the selection always changes depending of the length of the doctors assessment
2) Insert tables from Excel into the word document (paste-special - excel worksheet object). I have also written excel makros to switch the columns, but I cant start the excel-macros automatically in word. I always have to double-click on the table, so that an excel worksheet opens and i have to manually activate the macro.

Therefore, i kindly ask you the following questions:

1) is it possible to write a macro in word to automatically edit word-tables?
2) Is ist possible to automatically run an macro in an embedded excel sheet from Microsoft word via vba?

Thank you in advance and stay healthy,

Sarah

 

[Macropod]

For example:

Sub Demo()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim Tbl As Table
For Each Tbl In ActiveDocument.Tables
  With Tbl
    .Columns.Add .Columns(2)
    .Cell(1, 2).Range.Text = Split(.Cell(1, 3).Range.Text, vbCr)(0)
    .Cell(1, 3).Range.Text = Split(.Cell(1, 4).Range.Text, vbCr)(0)
    .Columns(4).Delete
  End With
Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

 

[Sarahmueller]

Thank you so much!

How can i modify the code to only apply the corresponding macro to a distinctive table in the document?

To address only table 1I have tried the following, but the code does not work.

Sub Demo()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim Tbl As Table
For Each Tbl In ActiveDocument.Tables
With Tbl = Table 1
.Columns.Add .Columns(2)
.Cell(1, 2).Range.Text = Split(.Cell(1, 3).Range.Text, vbCr)(0)
.Cell(1, 3).Range.Text = Split(.Cell(1, 4).Range.Text, vbCr)(0)
.Columns(4).Delete
End With
Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub


Thank you in advance and best regards,

Sarah

 

[Macropod]

How can i modify the code to only apply the corresponding macro to a distinctive table in the document?

That depends on what you mean by 'a distinctive table'. To limit the process to one or more selected tables, simply change:
ActiveDocument
to:
Selection

 

[Macropod]

Cross-posted at: Switch content of coulmns word table vba
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[Sarahmueller]

Thank you for the answer!
with distinctive table, i mean e.g. table 1 of the document, independent of the selection.

Since I have several tables in the document that contain information that should not be changed, i want to exclude these tables from the macro.
Is it always necessary to select the respective table before i can apply the macro to the table?

Best regards,

Sarah


(and sorry for the crosspost, I have deleted the question)

 

[Macropod]

In that case...

Sub Demo()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
With ActiveDocument.Tables(1)
  .Columns.Add .Columns(2)
  .Cell(1, 2).Range.Text = Split(.Cell(1, 3).Range.Text, vbCr)(0)
  .Cell(1, 3).Range.Text = Split(.Cell(1, 4).Range.Text, vbCr)(0)
  .Columns(4).Delete
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

 

[Sarahmueller]

Thank you so much!!

Since I have to work with different tables (see below) , I have tried to modify the code for table 2, so that in Table 2 all values 2.1-2.7 are replaced by 1.1-1.7. But i want to keep the headers of the tables.


I have come up with the following code:
Sub OnlyTable2()
'
' OnlyTable2 Macro
'
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
With ActiveDocument.Tables(2)
.Columns.Add .Columns(2)
.Cell(2, 4).Range.Text = Split(.Cell(3, 3).Range.Text, vbCr)(0)

.Columns(4).Delete
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

But I cant solve the problems I have with the code:
1) The macro does not delete the values in column 1 (except the header), so that i can enter new ones manually
2) I cant stop the macro from deleting header 2

Can you give me tips how to modify my code?

Thank you so much for your help, i really appreciate it!

Best regards and thanks in advance

Sarah

Name of patient	Header 1	Header 2	Header 3
Value 1.1	Value 1.1	Value 2.1	Value 4.1
Value 1.2	Value 1.2	Value 2.2	Value 4.2
Value 1.3	Value 1.3	Value 2.3	Value 4.3
Value 1.4	Value 1.4	Value 2.4	Value 4.4
Value 1.5	Value 1.5	Value 2.5	Value 4.5
Value 1.6	Value 1.6	Value 2.6	Value 4.6
Value 1.7	Value 1.7	Value 2.7	Value 4.7

Table 1

Header 1	Header 2	Header 3	Header 4
Value 1.1	Value 2.1	Value 3.1	Value 4.1
Value 1.2	Value 2.2	Value 3.2	Value 4.2
Value 1.3	Value 2.3	Value 3.3	Value 4.3
Value 1.4	Value 2.4	Value 3.4	Value 4.4
Value 1.5	Value 2.5	Value 3.5	Value 4.5
Value 1.6	Value 2.6	Value 3.6	Value 4.6
Value 1.7	Value 2.7	Value 3.7	Value 4.7

Table 2

 

[Sarahmueller]

Additionally:


For my understanding of the problem: How would the code look, if all values in the second row will be deleted, except the header of the corresponding second column?
If I would understand this, I might be able to solve my problem!

Many thanks in advance,

Sarah

 

[Macropod]

You keep moving the goal posts. To work with the second table in the document, all you needed to change is the '1' in With ActiveDocument.Tables(1).

For my understanding of the problem: How would the code look, if all values in the second row will be deleted, except the header of the corresponding second column?

I have no idea what you mean by that.