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nmkhan3010 · 10-22-2021, 11:11 AM

Hi,

Am having a document contains a table, i want to sort a text by descending order (string length large to small) based on a text in the last column, Please find a attachment for references.

Please sort a text by large to small in the same file and saved in a same path and please exclude the table headers first 3 rows.

Doc Type : .docx & .rtf.

File location is more dynamic and changes every time, it should be as a browse option to select a file from a desired location, it could be more benefited.

Please do the needful and your help is highly appreciated.

I want to sort by column no 3 but first 2 rows were not having same columns and getting error "Invalid column number", can anyone alter the below code according to my need.

Below code has to exclude the first 2 rows and it should be consider from 3rd row because from third it has a uniformity columns...

Below code source : 2 Smart Ways to Sort a Column of Texts by Length in Your Word - Data Recovery Blog

Code:

Sub SortByWordLength()
  Dim objTable As Table
  Dim objColumnCell As Cell
  Dim objColumnCellRange As Range
  Dim objNewColumnCellRange As Range
  Dim nRowNumber As Integer
  Dim nColumnNumber As Integer
  Dim strWordLenth As String
  Dim nSortOrder As Integer
  Dim nCurrentTableIndex As Integer
  Dim nTableColumnsInCurrentTable As Integer
 
  nCurrentTableIndex = ActiveDocument.Range(0, Selection.Tables(1).Range.End).Tables.Count
  nTableColumns = ActiveDocument.Tables(nCurrentTableIndex).Columns.Count

  nColumnNumber = InputBox("Enter the column number you want to sort", "Column Number", "For example:2")
 
  If nColumnNumber > 0 And nColumnNumber <= nTableColumns Then
    nSortOrder = InputBox("Choose the sort order:" & vbNewLine & "If you want to sort by descending, click 1" & vbNewLine & "If you want to sort by ascending, click 0", "Sort Order", "For example:1")

    If nSortOrder = 1 Or nSortOrder = 0 Then
      '  Add a new column to put the word length of the specified column.
      Set objTable = ActiveDocument.Tables(nCurrentTableIndex)
      objTable.Columns.Add BeforeColumn:=objTable.Columns(nColumnNumber)
      nRowNumber = 1

      For Each objColumnCell In objTable.Columns(nColumnNumber + 1).Cells
        Set objColumnCellRange = objColumnCell.Range
        objColumnCellRange.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=-1
        Set objNewColumnCellRange = objTable.Cell(nRowNumber, nColumnNumber).Range
        objNewColumnCellRange.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=-1
 
        strWordLenth = Len(objColumnCellRange.Text)
 
        objNewColumnCellRange.InsertAfter (strWordLenth)
 
        nRowNumber = nRowNumber + 1
      Next objColumnCell
 
      objTable.Select
 
      '  Sort by the word length.
      Selection.Sort ExcludeHeader:=True, FieldNumber:="Column " & nColumnNumber, SortFieldType:= _
        wdSortFieldNumeric, SortOrder:=nSortOrder, FieldNumber2:="", _
        SortFieldType2:=wdSortFieldAlphanumeric, SortOrder2:=wdSortOrderAscending _
      , FieldNumber3:="", SortFieldType3:=wdSortFieldAlphanumeric, SortOrder3:= _
        wdSortOrderAscending, Separator:=wdSortSeparateByCommas, SortColumn:= _
        False, CaseSensitive:=False, LanguageID:=wdEnglishUS, SubFieldNumber:= _
        "Paragraphs", SubFieldNumber2:="Paragraphs", SubFieldNumber3:="Paragraphs"
 
      objTable.Columns(nColumnNumber).Delete
 
    Else
      MsgBox ("Invalid sort type, please try again")
    End If
  Else
    MsgBox ("Invalid column number, please try again")
  End If
End Sub