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

 

[Sarahmueller]

I mean a code, so that table 1 in the document looks like this :

Header 1	Header 2	Header 3
Value Column 1		Value Column 3
Value Column 1		Value Column 3

Value Column 1

Value Column 3

rather than this:

Header 1	Header 2	Header 3
Value Column 1	Value Column 2	Value Column 3
Value Column 1	Value Column 2	Value Column 3
Value Column 1	Value Column 2	Value Column 3

I want to delete the value of all cells in the second column , except for the header

Thank you in advance and best regards,

Sarah

 

[Sarahmueller]

Sorry, the layout of the first table changed after my post, of course the layout of the tables should remain identical (the correct layout is presented in the second table)
Best regards,
Sarah

 

[Macropod]

So how does this relate to the table in post #1 - or is this a completely different issue?

 

[Sarahmueller]

This issue extends the main question, because the content of the cells not switched should be deleted.

Since I have already solved the problem, i will post my answer for interested readers:

You can directly edit a cell in a word table by using the following code:

.Cell(Row, Column).Range.Text = "Example"

If you want to delete the content, just create a cell without content.

 

[Macropod]

What 'cells not switched'? As far as I can tell, that could only concern column 1 and deleting that content would result in patient details being deleted but their medications remaining in column 3.