Microsoft KB Archive/172847

= How to cut and paste from general field into a Word document =

Article ID: 172847

Article Last Modified on 2/9/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 7.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 8.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0 Professional Edition

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SUMMARY
This article illustrates how to "Select All" and "Cut and Paste" an embedded Word Document from a general field into another Word document using code and OLE automation.



MORE INFORMATION
The following example consists of two sections. The first section is to create a mail merge Word document with bookmarks.

Note This example only works in Microsoft Word 97.

Create a Word 97 merge document
  Create a new Word document in Word 97, and format the document as follows:   Dear NAME,

CONTENT

Sincerely,

John Smith  Create a bookmark for CONTENT and NAME (the names of the bookmarks are CONTENT and ANAME, respectively). To create these bookmarks, follow these steps:  Highlight the items in the document (for example, CONTENT). On the Insert menu, click Bookmark. In the Bookmark dialog box, type in the bookmark's name and then click Add. Repeat steps a through c for the NAME bookmark.</li></ol> </li> Save the Word document as mytest.doc.</li></ol>

Visual FoxPro-specific items
<ol>  Create a table named "mydoc" with the following structure: <pre class="fixed_text">     Field name    Type       Size -     Content       General     4 Name         Character   10 </li> There should be only one record in this table. In the general field, paste in any existing Word document. In the Name field, place a ten-character expression.</li> Close the table.</li> Create a form that is named mail.scx in Visual FoxPro that only has a Command button.</li>  Place the following code in the Click method of the Command button: LOCAL oWordObj *  Open table IF !USED("mydoc") USE mydoc ELSE SELECT mydoc ENDIF

*  Open a Word Object oWordObj = CREATEOBJECT("Word.Application")

*  Next open the original document in a second window oWordObj.Documents.Open("C:\VFP50\mytest.doc")

*  Retrieve the number of bookmarks defined in DOC pnCountMarks = oWordObj.ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Count

*  Store bookmarks in an array DIMENSION aMark[pnCountMarks]

FOR pnCount = 1 TO pnCountMarks aMark[pnCount] = oWordObj.ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(pnCount).Name ENDFOR

*  Loop through all the bookmarks in the document FOR pnCount = 1 TO pnCountMarks pcMarkName = UPPER(aMark[pnCount])

*    Move to the next bookmark WITH oWordObj.ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(pcMarkName).Range

DO CASE CASE pcMarkName = "ANAME" .text = ALLTRIM(Name) CASE pcMarkName = "CONTENT" && goes to bookmark oWordObj.WordBasic.ww7_editgoto("CONTENT") *        Starts Word oWord=GETOBJECT(,"WORD.basic") *        Creates Form in VFP frmWord=CREATEOBJECT("FORM") *        Adds OLE object to form frmWord.ADDOBJECT("OBJWORDDOC","OLEBOUNDCONTROL") *        Sets the control source frmWord.OBJWORDDOC.CONTROLSOURCE="mydoc.content" *        frmWord.show frmWord.OBJWORDDOC.DoVerb(0) && Default Word doc is 'Edit' oWord.EditSelectAll oWord.EditCopy oWordObj.WordBasic.editpaste ENDCASE ENDWITH ENDFOR * Release the Word.Basic object that edits the General field * contents, and close the Form that was opened to access the VFP * table with that General field.

Release oWord Release frmWord

*   Save and Print the document oWordObj.WordBasic.FilePrint(0) && Turn background printing off WAIT WINDOW "Printing in Progress" TIMEOUT 3

oWordObj.WordBasic.FileSaveAs("c:\VFP50\DEMO1.DOC")

*   Close Word oWordObj.WordBasic.DocClose

*   Quit Word, release the object and clear the desktop oWOrdObj.Quit Release oWordObj Thisform.release </li> Save, and run the form. Click on the command button, and Word prints out the document with the Name and the Content of the mail merge.</li></ol>

Note With the GetObject command, Word 97 looks for a document with the desired name. If you want to refer to an already launched instance containing your word document, you should leave the first parameter empty instead of using an empty string, otherwise you can launch a new (invisible) instance of Word containing a NEW document.

Note On random occasions this solution can cause an unexplained OLE error at the following line of code: WITH oWordObj.ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(pcMarkName).Range The error message follows:

OLE IDispatch exception Code 0 from Microsoft Word. The requested member of the collection does not exist.

Keywords: kbhowto kbinterop kbautomation KB172847

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