How to Save PowerPoint Presentation as PDF using VBA

How to Convert PowerPoint Presentation PPT to PDF using VBA

PDF is always the universal format for sending the files. With lot of versions of MS Office and other Office suites around .. it is better to circulate the Deck as a PDF

The following snippet converts the Presentation to a PDF and saves in the same folder of the PPT

ActivePresentation.ExportAsFixedFormat ActivePresentation.Path & "\" & ActivePresentation.Name & ".pdf", ppFixedFormatTypePDF, ppFixedFormatIntentPrint

How to Create PDF from Word Document using VBA

How to Convert Word Table to PDF using VBA

Excel VBA TimeStamp – Milliseconds using Excel VBA

How to Get Time in Milliseconds using Excel VBA

The following function uses Timer function to get the milliseconds and append it to the current time

Public Function TimeInMS() As String

TimeInMS = Strings.Format(Now, "dd-MMM-yyyy HH:nn:ss") & "." & Strings.Right(Strings.Format(Timer, "#0.00"), 2)

End Function

Timer function returns a Single representing the number of seconds elapsed since midnight.

Another method is to use API Functions as shown below

Private Type SYSTEMTIME

wYear As Integer

wMonth As Integer

wDayOfWeek As Integer

wDay As Integer

wHour As Integer

wMinute As Integer

wSecond As Integer

wMilliseconds As Integer

End Type

Private Declare Sub GetSystemTime Lib "kernel32" _

(lpSystemTime As SYSTEMTIME)

Public Function TimeToMillisecond() As String

Dim tSystem As SYSTEMTIME

Dim sRet

On Error Resume Next

GetSystemTime tSystem

sRet = Hour(Now) & ":" & Minute(Now) & ":" & Second(Now) & _

":" & tSystem.wMilliseconds

TimeToMillisecond = sRet

End Function

Millisecond timer using VBA, How to get milliseconds in VBA Now() function, VBA Now() function, VBA Timer function , Excel VBA Timer, VBA Milliseconds

Excel VBA uninstall Excel Addins

Programmatically uninstall Excel Addins using VBA

Sub UnInstall_Addins_From_EXcel_AddinsList()

Dim oXLAddin As AddIn

For Each oXLAddin In Application.AddIns

Debug.Print oXLAddin.FullName

If oXLAddin.Installed = True Then

oXLAddin.Installed = False

End If

Next oXLAddin

End Sub

Embed Existing Word File to Spreadsheet using Excel VBA

Insert Existing File (Word Document) to Spreadsheet using VBA

Sub Insert_File_To_sheet()

Dim oWS As Worksheet ' Worksheet Object

Dim oOLEWd As OLEObject ' OLE Word Object

Dim oWD As Document ' Word Document Object (Use Microsoft Word Reference)

Set oWS = ActiveSheet

' embed Word Document

Set oOLEWd = oWS.OLEObjects.Add(Filename:="C:\VBADUD\Chapter 1.doc")

oOLEWd.Name = "EmbeddedWordDoc"

oOLEWd.Width = 400

oOLEWd.Height = 400

oOLEWd.Top = 30

' Assign the OLE Object to Word Object

Set oWD = oOLEWd.Object

oWD.Paragraphs.Add

oWD.Paragraphs(oWD.Paragraphs.Count).Range.InsertAfter "This is a sample embedded word document"

oOLEWd.Activate

End Sub

If you want to embed other document like PDF etc, you can do the same by

ActiveSheet.OLEObjects.Add Filename:= "C:\VBADUD\Sample_CH03.pdf", Link:=False, DisplayAsIcon:= False

Display embedded document as Icon

If you want to display the embedded document as an Icon set DisplayAsIcon property to True

Retrieve / Get First Row of Excel AutoFilter using VBA

Extract First Row of the Filtered Range using Excel VBA

We can create filters programmatically using Excel VBA () and also add multiple criteria to it (). Once we get the filtered data, either we extract the same or iterate each row in it and do some operations. Here is one such simple program to extract the rows of filtered range using VBA

Sub Get_Filtered_Range()

Dim oWS As Worksheet

Dim oRng As Range

Dim oColRng As Range

Dim oInRng As Range

On Error GoTo Err_Filter

oWS = ActiveSheet

oWS.UsedRange.AutoFilter(Field:=2, Criteria1:="Banana")

oRng = oWS.Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)

oColRng = oWS.Range("A2:A5000")

oInRng = Intersect(oRng, oColRng)

MsgBox("Filtered Range is " & oInRng.Address)

MsgBox("First Row Filtered Range is " & oInRng.Rows(1).Row)

Finally:

If Not oWS Is Nothing Then oWS = Nothing

Err_Filter:

If Err <> 0 Then

MsgBox(Err.Description)

Err.Clear()

GoTo Finally

End If

End Sub

UnInstall Word Addins using VBA

Here is a simple method to uninstall a Word Addin (.dot file) using Word VBA

Private Sub UnInstalled_AllWordAddins()

Dim oAddin As AddIn

On Error GoTo Err_Addin

For Each oAddin In AddIns

If oAddin.Installed Then

msg = oAddin.Name

oAddin.Installed = False

End If

Next oAddin

Finally:

If Not oAddin Is Nothing Then Set oAddin = Nothing

Err_Addin:

If Err < > 0 Then

Err.Clear

GoTo Finally

End If

End Sub

Installed Word Addin

Word Addin List after Macro Execution. Addin is uninstalled (not removed)

Word VBA add command buttons through code

Add CommandButton to Word Document using VBA (through AddOLEControl)

Here is one of the ways to add a command button on a Word document using Word VBA

Sub Macro_Add_Button()

Dim oCtl

Dim oCmd

Set oCtl = ActiveDocument.InlineShapes.AddOLEControl(ClassType:="Forms.CommandButton.1")

Set oCmd = oCtl.OLEFormat.Object

oCmd.Caption = "Click Me..."

End Sub

Update Word Document with Excel Information using VBA

Excel Range to Word Template using VBA

Most often we maintain list of contacts in Excel workbook and it needs to be transferred to Word document (made from some template). Here is a simple snippet that can help:

The code is used to copy the content from Excel range shown below to a Word document:

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Name	ContactNo	Address	Email
Christina	516 418 1234	Cincinatti	Christina@vbadud.com
Girish Kutty	516 418 6752	Cincinatti	gkutty@vbadud.com
Ravichand Koneru	777 213 213	Boston	rkoneru@vbadud.com

Sub CopY_Data_To_Word()

Dim oWA As Word.Application

Dim oWD As Word.Document

Set oWA = New Word.Application

Set oWD = oWA.Documents.Add("C:\Users\comp\Documents\Doc2.dot") ' Replace with your template here

For i1 = 2 To Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeLastCell).Row

oWD.Bookmarks("Name").Range.Text = Cells(i1, 1)

oWD.Bookmarks("ContactNo").Range.Text = Cells(i1, 2)

oWD.Bookmarks("Address").Range.Text = Cells(i1, 3)

oWD.Bookmarks("Email").Range.Text = Cells(i1, 4)

'Code for saving the document

Next i1

' Releasing objects etc

End Sub

Bookmarks are added to the Word template and whenever a new document is created from the template, the document has those bookmarks.

The code above places the information from the Excel sheet to the specific Bookmark ranges

Excel to Word using VBA

How to Make a File ReadOnly using Excel VBA

How to Create ReadOnly Files using VBA - Excel VBA ReadOnly Function

There are many occassions where you want to save the file as Readonly (at times with a Password protection) after you complete the process. We have talked about SetAttr that changes the file attributes. Now let us see how to do this using FileSystemObject

Please refer How to iterate through all Subdirectories till the last directory in VBA to know how to include the references if you are using Early binding.

The following snippet uses late binding and shows how to set the file as read-only

Function MakeFileReadOnly(ByVal sFile As String)

Dim strSaveFilename As String

Dim oFSO As Object      'Scripting.FileSystemObject
Dim oFile As Object     'Scripting.File


    ' Create Objects
    ' Uses Late Binding
    Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set oFile = oFSO.GetFile(FilePath:=sFile)

    ' Set file to be read-only
    oFile.Attributes = 1
 
    ' Releasing Objects
    If Not oFSO Is Nothing Then Set oFSO = Nothing
    If Not oFile Is Nothing Then Set oFile = Nothing

End Function

The function is not restricted to Excel files alone and can be used for any kind of files

Once You are done you can  Check Workbook Attributes to confirm if the Workbook is ReadOnly

How to Create Hyperlinks in multiple cells using EXcel VBA

How to Link Cells to Files/Folders using Excel VBA

There are many cases where we want to have a Hyperlink on a cell that opens a document / image etc.
In the following snippet we can see how that works

The sheet is the Master Sheet, which contains the list of Products that are compared. The comparison reports for these products are placed in separate files in the same folder.

The hyperlink uses Relative path - you can hardcode this to any particular folder

Sub Create_HyperLinks()

Dim i1 As Integer
Dim sA, sB As String

For i1 = 2 To Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeLastCell).Row
    If LenB(Trim$(Cells(i1, 3).Value)) <> 0 Then
        sA = Trim$(Cells(i1, 1).Value)
        sB = Trim$(Cells(i1, 2).Value)
        sA = "Compared_" & sA & "_" & sB & ".xls"
        Sheets(1).Range("C" & i1).Hyperlinks.Add Cells(i1, 3), "CompareReports\" & sA
    End If
Next i1


End Sub

See also: Convert URLs to Hyperlinks using VBA

How to Split Text in a Cell to Multiple Cells using Excel VBA

Convert a Text to Range using Excel VBA

The following snippet converts the Text to an Array by splitting using SemiColon delimiter and uses the Transpose Function to place it in the Range

Sub ConvertText2Range()

Dim sText As String, arText

sText = Range("c16").Value

arText = Split(sText, ";")

Range("D16:D" & CStr(16 + UBound(arText))).Value = WorksheetFunction.Transpose(arText)
End Sub

How to convert Excel Text to Comments using VBA

Convert Excel Range to Comments using VBA

We have seen how to Copy Comments in an Excel Sheet to a Range; now let us see how to do the opposite

Our reference Excel has Text that needs to be converted as Comments on Column E, which needs to be placed as comments

Sub Convert_Text_To_Comments()

Dim sText As String     ' Comment String
Dim i1 As Long          ' Counter
Dim sUser As String     ' User Name

sUser = Application.UserName

For i1 = 1 To ActiveSheet.Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeLastCell).Row
    
    sText = ActiveSheet.Cells(i1, 5).Value
       
    'Deletes Existing Comments
    Cells(i1, 3).ClearComments
    
    ' Creates Comment
    Cells(i1, 3).AddComment
    Cells(i1, 3).Comment.Text Text:=sUser & Chr(10) & sText
    
Next i1




End Sub

If you already have comments and try to AddComment then Runtime Error 1004 will be thrown. That is why it is better to Remove the existing comments (ClearComments) and proceed with Adding new comment

How to Extract Comment information from Word VBA

How to Extract Comments Text and Related Information from Word Document using VBA

Here is a hint of accessing the comments and related information using VBA

Sub Get_Comment_Information()

Dim oComment As Comment
Dim oCommentRange As Range

For i1 = 1 To ActiveDocument.Comments.Count
    Set oComment = ActiveDocument.Comments(i1)
    Set oCommentRange = oComment.Scope.Paragraphs(1).Range
    Debug.Print "Page : " & oCommentRange.Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber) & vbTab _
                     & "Line : " & oCommentRange.Information(wdFirstCharacterLineNumber) & vbTab

    

Next i1

End Sub

How to Identify and Tag Numbered Lists using VBA

How to Identify and Tag Bullet Lists using VBA

Following snippet identifies a Bulleted List and Tags all Bullet List items and the Bulletted List as a whole

Sub Tag_Lists()

Dim oBL As ListFormat
Dim oList As List
Dim oLI

    For Each oList In ActiveDocument.Lists
        If oList.Range.ListFormat.ListType = WdListType.wdListBullet Then
            For Each oLI In oList.ListParagraphs
                oLI.Range.InsertBefore "
"                  oLI.Range.InsertAfter "
"
            Next oLI
            oList.Range.InsertBefore "
"             oList.Range.InsertAfter "
"
        End If
    Next oList


 End Sub

Compare Word Documents with Headers and Footers using VBA

How to Compare Word Documents Programatically using Word VBA

Word Documents are everywhere .. proposals, tenders, notes, technical papers. In many cases there are more than one authors and more than five reviewers. There is a devil in everyone which comes out when reviewing the document. Suggest some changes.. boldface  some text, markup some paragraph and screw the document. If you are  the author it is your responsibility to ensure that the changes get reflected. There are many document management solutions that are available for parallel working.

Just in case you get a document reviewed by your boss (and without track changes) and you want to know what he/she has done use the following

Sub CompareDoc()

Dim oDoc1 As Document
Dim oDoc2 As Document

Set oDoc1 = Documents.Open("D:\Changed Header.doc")
Set oDoc2 = Documents.Open("D:\Original Header.doc")
Application.CompareDocuments oDoc1, oDoc2, wdCompareDestinationNew, , , , , , True, True

End Sub

This compares two documents and creates a new document with Track Changes showing the changes.


There are lot of parameters to CompareDocuments method. The notable being CompareFormatting, CompareHeaders, CompareFootnotes. The last two ones are used if you want to know the changes made in Headers and Footers. Who knows you would have kept the same header from the document you cloned and your boss would have noticed and changed it. Do you want to take risk of ignoring that

See also
Comparing two Word Documents using Word VBA
Compare Files by Date

How to Convert Word Table to PDF using VBA

Export Word Table as PDF using VBA

Anyone who is using Word for quite sometime will agree that Tables and Images are bit scary when it comes to viewing across versions or machines. A Table which looks great in your machine might not look so if he uses a different version of Word.

In that case it is better to have the Table converted as PDF in your machine and circulate the same. In last post we saw how to export part of text to a new document using ExportFragment method. Here we export a Table as PDF using ExportAsFixedFormat method.

The following snippet does exactly the same:

Sub Table2PDF()

Dim oTab As Word.Table
Dim oRange As Word.Range

Set oTab = ActiveDocument.Tables(1)

oTab.Range.ExportAsFixedFormat "D:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My Documents\Tab_PDF.pdf", wdExportFormatPDF

End Sub

See also:
Convert Word to PDF using VBA

How to Export Parts of Document using Word VBA

Copy Content with Formatting to New Document using Word VBA

Not all the tens and hundreds of pages in a Word document interests you or matters to you. There are some documents, which we use for reference. All we need is a paragraph/section from the document. If it is a book we used to take a photo-copy of the same and keep it in a folder. How to do the same in a Word document - and in an automated way with all the formatting intact?

 ExportFragment method in Word VBA provides the solution. It creates a new document from the existing one for the Range of your choice.

Here is an example where it exports eleventh paragraph of the document to a new one.

Sub PartofText()

Dim oWDRange As Word.Range

Set oWDRange = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(11).Range
oWDRange.ExportFragment "D:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My Documents\Reference_11.docx", wdFormatDocumentDefault

End Sub

See also

How to export Word Range as RTF using VBA

How to Format Part of Content Controls in Word VBA

Word VBA - Format Some portion of Rich Text Content Control Programatically

ContentControls have become ubiquitous with Word documents nowadays. Rich Text Content Control is used by many developers and authors to represent useful information.

At times there is a necessity to highlight / format some part of the Text in that control. You can either search for the text and highlight it or Highlight them based on position

The following example shows how to boldface certain portion of ContentControl

Sub FormatContentControl()

Dim oCC As ContentControl
Dim oCCRange As Range
Dim oCCRngFormat As Range
Dim oChr As Range

Set oCC = ActiveDocument.ContentControls(1)
oCC.Type = wdContentControlRichText
Set oCCRange = oCC.Range
Set oCCRngFormat = oCCRange.Duplicate

oCC.LockContentControl = False
oCC.LockContents = False

oCCRngFormat.Start = 20
oCCRngFormat.End = oCCRange.End

For Each oChr In oCCRngFormat.Characters
    oChr.Font.Bold = True
Next oChr

oCCRngFormat.Font.Bold = -1
oCCRngFormat.Font.Underline = WdUnderline.wdUnderlineSingle

oCCRngFormat.Start = oCCRange.End
oCCRngFormat.Font.Bold = 0
oCCRngFormat.Font.Underline = WdUnderline.wdUnderlineNone


End Sub

See also
How to retrieve value from Content Controls using Word VBA
How to add Content Controls using VBA

How to Search and Highlight/Tag a string in Word VBA

How to Search Content for Specific String/Text using Word VBA

This action is performed often by programmers - there are couple of ways to do

1. Selection.Find
2. Content.Find

We will have a look at how to search a string, highlight the string and tag the same using Word VBA. This needs document to be open

Sub Highlight_Tag_Found_Word()

Dim sFindText As String

sFindText = "Olympics"

Selection.ClearFormatting

Selection.HomeKey wdStory, wdMove

Selection.Find.ClearFormatting

Selection.Find.Execute sFindText

 

Do Until Selection.Find.Found = False

        Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdPink
        
        Selection.InsertBefore "< FoundWord >"
        
        Selection.InsertAfter < /FoundWord >
        
        Selection.MoveRight
        
        Selection.Find.Execute

Loop

 

End Sub

How to create a Trendline Chart using Excel VBA

Excel VBA - Trendline Charts

Here are some snippets useful to create a TrendLine Chart in Excel

Have used the entire data from the given sheet to create the chart. Have used the UsedRange function to get that.

If you want to have a specified range you can pass that also

Sub Create_TrendLine_Chart_Excel_2003(ByRef oRep As Worksheet, ByVal iLeft As Double, ByVal iTop As Double, ByVal sChartTitle As String, ByRef oSource As Range)
Dim oChts As ChartObjects           '* Chart Object Collection
Dim oCht As ChartObject             '* Chart Object
On Error GoTo Err_Chart
    Set oChts = oRep.ChartObjects
    Set oCht = oChts.Add(iLeft, iTop, 400, 450)
   
    oCht.Chart.SetSourceData oSource, PlotBy:=xlColumns
    oCht.Chart.ChartType = xlLineMarkers
   
    oCht.Chart.HasTitle = True
    oCht.Chart.ChartTitle.Text = sChartTitle
   
    oCht.Chart.Legend.Position = xlLegendPositionRight
   
    oCht.Chart.HasAxis(XlAxisType.xlCategory) = True
    oCht.Chart.Axes(XlAxisType.xlCategory, xlPrimary).HasTitle = True
    oCht.Chart.Axes(XlAxisType.xlCategory, xlPrimary).AxisTitle.Characters.Text = ""
   
    oCht.Chart.HasAxis(XlAxisType.xlValue) = True
    oCht.Chart.Axes(XlAxisType.xlValue, xlPrimary).HasTitle = True
    oCht.Chart.Axes(xlValue, xlPrimary).AxisTitle.Text = "Percentage Done" '.Axes(Type:=XlAxisType.xlValue).AxisTitle.Text = "% Done"
    oCht.Chart.Axes(xlValue).MaximumScale = 1
   
    oCht.Chart.Axes(xlCategory).TickLabelSpacing = 1
    oCht.Chart.Axes(xlCategory).TickLabels.Font.Size = 8
   
    'oCht.Chart.SetElement (msoElementPrimaryCategoryGridLinesMajor)
    If Not oCht Is Nothing Then Set oCht = Nothing
    If Not oChts Is Nothing Then Set oChts = Nothing

Err_Chart:
If Err <> 0 Then
   Debug.Assert Err = 0
   Debug.Print Err.Description
   If Err.Number = 94 Then  'Invalid Use of Null Error
        Err.Clear
        Resume Next
   Else
        Err.Clear
        Resume Next
   End If
End If

End Sub

For some reason the above was creating a problem in Excel 2007 and above. Hence created a separate snippet for it

Sub Create_TrendLine_Chart_Excel_2007(ByRef oRep As Worksheet, ByVal iLeft As Double, ByVal iTop As Double, ByVal sChartTitle As String)
Dim oChts As ChartObjects           '* Chart Object Collection
Dim oCht As ChartObject             '* Chart Object
On Error GoTo Err_Chart
    Set oChts = oRep.ChartObjects
    Set oCht = oChts.Add(iLeft, iTop, 400, 450)
   
    oCht.Chart.ChartWizard Source:=oRep.UsedRange
    oCht.Chart.ChartType = xlLineMarkers
   
    oCht.Chart.HasTitle = True
    oCht.Chart.ChartTitle.Text = sChartTitle
   
    oCht.Chart.Legend.Position = xlLegendPositionRight
   
   
    oCht.Chart.HasAxis(XlAxisType.xlCategory) = True
    oCht.Chart.Axes(XlAxisType.xlCategory, xlPrimary).HasTitle = True
    oCht.Chart.Axes(XlAxisType.xlCategory, xlPrimary).AxisTitle.Characters.Text = ""
   
    oCht.Chart.HasAxis(XlAxisType.xlValue) = True
    oCht.Chart.Axes(XlAxisType.xlValue, xlPrimary).HasTitle = True
    oCht.Chart.Axes(xlValue, xlPrimary).AxisTitle.Text = "Percentage Done" '.Axes(Type:=XlAxisType.xlValue).AxisTitle.Text = "% Done"
    oCht.Chart.Axes(xlValue).MaximumScale = 1
    'oCht.Chart.SetElement (msoElementPrimaryCategoryGridLinesMajor)

Err_Chart:
If Err <> 0 Then
   Debug.Assert Err = 0
   Debug.Print Err.Description
   If Err.Number = 94 Then  'Invalid Use of Null Error
        Err.Clear
        Resume Next
   Else
        Err.Clear
        Resume Next
   End If
End If

End Sub

ChartType = xlLineMarkers makes this Chart a TrendLine. You can try your luck by selecting other types