Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support. Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. This step-by-step article describes how to create a new document in Word by using Automation from Visual Basic.
On the Project menu, click References , click one of the following options, and then click OK :. After the code completes, examine the document that was created for you.
Form1 is created by default. The WebBrowser control appears with the text Explorer in the toolbox. From the Project menu, select Components to open the Components dialog box.
Click OK to add the items to the toolbox. The WebBrowser control browses to documents asynchronously. When you call WebBrowser1. Navigate, the call returns control to your Visual Basic application before the document has been completely loaded. If you plan to Automate the contained document, you need to use the NavigateComplete2 event to be notified when the document has finished loading. Use the Document property of the WebBrowser object that is passed in to get a reference to the Office document object, which, in the preceding code, is set to oDocument.
The WebBrowser control generally hides any docked toolbars before displaying an Office document. You can use Automation to show a floating toolbar using code such as the following. Newer versions of Internet Explorer 5. There are several known issues with having more than one WebBrowser control in a project and having each control loaded with the same type of Office document that is, all Word documents, or all Excel spreadsheets.
It is recommended that you only use one control per project, and browse to one document at a time. Beyond the power of scripting VBA to accelerate every-day tasks, you can use VBA to add new functionality to Office applications or to prompt and interact with the user of your documents in ways that are specific to your business needs. For example, you could write some VBA code that displays a pop up message that reminds users to save a document to a particular network drive the first time they try to save it.
This article explores some of the primary reasons to leverage the power of VBA programming. It explores the VBA language and the out-of-the-box tools that you can use to work with your solutions. Finally, it includes some tips and ways to avoid some common programming frustrations and missteps. Interested in developing solutions that extend the Office experience across multiple platforms?
Check out the new Office Add-ins model. VBA is effective and efficient when it comes to repetitive solutions to formatting or correction problems. For example, have you ever changed the style of the paragraph at the top of each page in Word? Have you ever had to reformat multiple tables that were pasted from Excel into a Word document or an Outlook email? Have you ever had to make the same change in multiple Outlook contacts?
If you have a change that you have to make more than ten or twenty times, it may be worth automating it with VBA. If it is a change that you have to do hundreds of times, it certainly is worth considering. Almost any formatting or editing change that you can do by hand, can be done in VBA.
There are times when you want to encourage or compel users to interact with the Office application or document in a particular way that is not part of the standard application. For example, you might want to prompt users to take some particular action when they open, save, or print a document. Do you need to copy all of your contacts from Outlook to Word and then format them in some particular way?
Or, do you need to move data from Excel to a set of PowerPoint slides? Sometimes simple copy and paste does not do what you want it to do, or it is too slow. You can use VBA programming to interact with the details of two or more Office applications at the same time and then modify the content in one application based on the content in another. VBA programming is a powerful solution, but it is not always the optimal approach. Sometimes it makes sense to use other ways to achieve your aims.
The critical question to ask is whether there is an easier way. Before you begin a VBA project, consider the built-in tools and standard functionalities. For example, if you have a time-consuming editing or layout task, consider using styles or accelerator keys to solve the problem. Can you create a new document with the correct format or template, and then copy the content into that new document?
Office applications are powerful; the solution that you need may already be there. Take some time to learn more about Office before you jump into programming.
Programming requires focus and can be unpredictable. Especially as a beginner, never turn to programming unless you have time to work carefully. Trying to write a "quick script" to solve a problem when a deadline looms can result in a very stressful situation. If you are in a rush, you might want to use conventional methods, even if they are monotonous and repetitive. You might think that writing code is mysterious or difficult, but the basic principles use every-day reasoning and are quite accessible.
Microsoft Office applications are created in such a way that they expose things called objects that can receive instructions, in much the same way that a phone is designed with buttons that you use to interact with the phone. When you press a button, the phone recognizes the instruction and includes the corresponding number in the sequence that you are dialing.
In programming, you interact with the application by sending instructions to various objects in the application. These objects are expansive, but they have their limits. They can only do what they are designed to do, and they will only do what you instruct them to do. For example, consider the user who opens a document in Word, makes a few changes, saves the document, and then closes it.
Developers organize programming objects in a hierarchy, and that hierarchy is called the object model of the application. Word, for example, has a top-level Application object that contains a Document object. The Document object contains Paragraph objects and so on. Object models roughly mirror what you see in the user interface. They are a conceptual map of the application and its capabilities. The definition of an object is called a class, so you might see these two terms used interchangeably.
Technically, a class is the description or template that is used to create, or instantiate, an object. Once an object exists, you can manipulate it by setting its properties and calling its methods. If you think of the object as a noun, the properties are the adjectives that describe the noun and the methods are the verbs that animate the noun.
Changing a property changes some quality of appearance or behavior of the object. Calling one of the object methods causes the object to perform some action. The VBA code in this article runs against an open Office application where many of the objects that the code manipulates are already up and running; for example, the Application itself, the Worksheet in Excel, the Document in Word, the Presentation in PowerPoint, the Explorer and Folder objects in Outlook.
Once you know the basic layout of the object model and some key properties of the Application that give access to its current state, you can start to extend and manipulate that Office application with VBA in Office. In Word, for example, you can change the properties and invoke the methods of the current Word document by using the ActiveDocument property of the Application object.
This ActiveDocument property returns a reference to the Document object that is currently active in the Word application. The following code does exactly what it says; that is, it saves the active document in the application. Read the code from left to right, "In this Application, with the Document referenced by ActiveDocument, invoke the Save method. You instruct a Document object to Save and it does not require any more input from you. If a method requires more information, those details are called parameters.
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Commit Try mf. Monday, April 20, PM. Thanks for the reply, this is a good start for creating the document. I'm still not sure how to setup the signature line.
I've figured out how to add it myDocument.
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