Hi everyone,
I'm working on a project where I need to copy certain words that are highlighted in a Word document to a designated Excel file. I'm not very familiar with writing macros, so I was wondering if anyone could help me with this.
Here's a macro I found online that can copy highlighted text from Word Document to Excel, but it automatically open a new excel file, not allow to paste the copied words to designated excel file.
Code:
Sub ExtractHighShadeText()
Dim Exc As Excel.Application
Dim Wb As Excel.Workbook
Dim Ws As Excel.Worksheet
Dim s As String, Rw As Long
Set Exc = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Exc.Visible = True
Set Wb = Exc.Workbooks.add
Set Ws = Wb.Sheets(1)
Rw = 0
Dim Rng As Range, StartChr As Long, EndChr As Long, OldColor As Long, Clr As Long
''''''''''''''''''''HiLight''''''''''''''''''
Set Rng = ActiveDocument.Characters(1)
OldColor = Rng.Font.Color
Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
With Selection.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Text = ""
.Highlight = True
.Font.BOLD = True
Do While .Execute
'These two line Converting HighlightColorIndex to RGB Color
Rng.Font.ColorIndex = Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex
Clr = Rng.Font.Color
Rw = Rw + 1
Ws.Cells(Rw, 1).value = Selection.Text
'Ws.Cells(Rw, 1).Interior.ColorIndex = Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex
Ws.Cells(Rw, 1).Interior.Color = Clr
'For sorting on HighlightColorIndex
'Ws.Cells(Rw, 2).Value = Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex
'For sorting on HighlightColorIndex RGB value
Ws.Cells(Rw, 2).value = Clr
Loop
End With
Rng.Font.Color = OldColor
'''End Hilight''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
'WorkAround used for converting highlightColorIndex to Color RGB value
StartChr = 1
EndChr = 0
Set Rng = ActiveDocument.Characters(1)
Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
With Selection.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Text = ""
'.Highlight = True
.Font.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic
Do While .Execute
EndChr = Selection.Start
Debug.Print Selection.Start, Selection.End, StartChr, EndChr, IIf(EndChr > StartChr, "-OK", "")
If EndChr > StartChr Then
Set Rng = ActiveDocument.Range(Start:=StartChr, End:=EndChr)
Clr = Rng.Font.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor
Rw = Rw + 1
Ws.Cells(Rw, 1).value = Rng.Text
Ws.Cells(Rw, 1).Interior.Color = Clr
Ws.Cells(Rw, 2).value = Clr
End If
StartChr = Selection.End
Loop
If EndChr > StartChr Then
Set Rng = ActiveDocument.Range(Start:=StartChr, End:=EndChr)
Clr = Rng.Font.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor
Rw = Rw + 1
Ws.Cells(Rw, 1).value = Rng.Text
Ws.Cells(Rw, 1).Interior.Color = Clr
Ws.Cells(Rw, 2).value = Clr
End If
End With
If Rw > 1 Then
Ws.Range("A1:B" & Rw).Sort Key1:=Ws.Range("B1"), Order1:=xlAscending, Header:=xlNo
Ws.Range("B1:B" & Rw).ClearContents
End If
End Sub
And I know the following code can allow me to designate the excel file:
Code:
Private strWorkbook As String
Private strSheet As String
strWorkbook = BrowseForFile("Select Workbook", True)
If Not strWorkbook = vbNullString Then
strSheet = "sheet1"
Code:
Private Function BrowseForFile(Optional strTitle As String, Optional bExcel As Boolean) As String
Dim fDialog As FileDialog
On Error GoTo err_Handler
Set fDialog = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFilePicker)
With fDialog
.Title = strTitle
.AllowMultiSelect = False
.Filters.Clear
If bExcel Then
.Filters.add "Excel workbooks", "*.xls,*.xlsx,*.xlsm"
Else
.Filters.add "Word documents", "*.doc,*.docx,*.docm"
End If
.InitialView = msoFileDialogViewList
If .Show <> -1 Then GoTo err_Handler:
BrowseForFile = fDialog.SelectedItems.Item(1)
End With
lbl_Exit:
Exit Function
err_Handler:
BrowseForFile = vbNullString
Resume lbl_Exit
End Function
If anyone could provide guidance on how to write this macro, or point me towards any resources that might be helpful, I would really appreciate it. Thank you!