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Old 02-06-2019, 01:50 AM
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Which demonstrates that you set it in the wrong VBA project. Redo it on the PC you just tested on, making sure you choose your own workbook's VBA project beforehand.
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Once you've done the Word referencing in the Excel workbook, there is no need for anyone else to do so - the referencing travels with the workbook.

Here's an approach for handling your three letters that allows you to keep each in its own document and still have just a single document for your mailmerge:
1. Save each of your existing mailmerge main documents as ordinary Word documents, naming them sb1.docx, sb2.docx, & sb3.docx, respectively (as you originally indicated them to be).
2. Create a new mailmerge main document.
3. Use just the following field code in your new mailmerge main document:
{SKIPIF{MERGEFIELD Anz}= "0"}{QUOTE{INCLUDETEXT "{FILENAME \p}\..\sb{MERGEFIELD Anz}.docx"}}
4. Save your new mailmerge main document in the same folder as your three letters.
5. Reference only your new mailmerge main document in the VBA code.

Note: with the above there should be no need for your 'where (Anz>0)' in the SQL statement.
It works for a few docs but then comes the popup: do you want to save changes you made to letters9?, I say Save and then it wants to save it as Error.docx. In the document itself stands: Error! Not a valid filename.
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Old 02-06-2019, 03:21 AM
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That will be because whatever record is being processed (probably record #9) doesn't have anything in your "ID" Data Field a valid filename can be created from.
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I have tested it with only one record. It saves the document under the correct name AND giving me the msg if I want to save changes in letters1 like described above

As if it wants to save the document twice...
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Excel is also changing the date format in the "ID" (Name of output file)... what sould be 2019.02.06 is getting 06_02_2019
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Old 02-06-2019, 04:39 AM
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I have tested it with only one record. It saves the document under the correct name AND giving me the msg if I want to save changes in letters1 like described above

As if it wants to save the document twice...
That strongly suggests you've messed with the VBA code.
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Excel is also changing the date format in the "ID" (Name of output file)... what sould be 2019.02.06 is getting 06_02_2019
Which is what it's supposed to do - you shouldn't have periods in file names, so the code changes them to underscores.
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Old 02-06-2019, 05:25 AM
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I actually copied the VBA Code from your sticky thread that you linked me before. I only changed filenames...
And the code worked until I changed the 3 documents to one main document...

Okay the "." is replaced by "_" but why are the numbers changed?
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Old 02-06-2019, 12:54 PM
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I suspect the file save error is due to the presence of something other than 0, 1, 2, or 3 in your Anz column.

As for the change in the ID number order, that's most likely because the OLEDB driver interprets your 2019.02.06 as a date and is changing the output to a date in US date format. Even if the periods weren't being replaced with underscores you'd have that problem. If numbers like 2019.02.06 are all your ID field contains, you may be able to work around that by changing:
StrName = .DataFields("ID")
to:
StrName = Format(.DataFields("ID"), "YYYY_MM_DD")
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Old 02-06-2019, 11:29 PM
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I suspect the file save error is due to the presence of something other than 0, 1, 2, or 3 in your Anz column.
No, it is even when I have only one row with Anz=1.

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If numbers like 2019.02.06 are all your ID field contains, you may be able to work around that by changing:
StrName = .DataFields("ID")
The ID is as follows =TEXT(TODAY();"TT.MM.jjjj")&"_VA + FVA_"&F2
We have English MS Office Programs and English Windows10, but Excel is not recognizing "DD.MM.YYYY" but the German "TT.MM.JJJJ".
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Old 02-07-2019, 06:16 PM
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Use a mailmerge main document with the field coding:
{QUOTE{INCLUDETEXT "{FILENAME \p}//..//sb{MERGEFIELD Anz}.docx"}}
combined with the following macro:
Code:
Sub RunMerge()
' Merges one record at a time to the folder containing the Excel workbook.
' Sourced from: https://www.msofficeforums.com/mail-merge/21803-mailmerge-tips-tricks.html
' Note: this code requires a reference to the Word object model to be set, via Tools|References in the VBE.
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim StrMMSrc As String, StrMMDoc As String, StrMMPath As String, StrName As String
Dim i As Long, j As Long: Const StrNoChr As String = """*./\:?|"
StrMMSrc = ThisWorkbook.FullName: StrMMPath = ThisWorkbook.Path & "\": StrMMDoc = StrMMPath & "abc.docx"
Dim wdApp As New Word.Application, wdDoc As Word.Document
With wdApp
  .Visible = True
  .DisplayAlerts = wdAlertsNone
  Set wdDoc = .Documents.Open(Filename:=StrMMDoc, AddToRecentFiles:=False, ReadOnly:=True, Visible:=False)
  With wdDoc
    With .MailMerge
      .MainDocumentType = wdFormLetters
      .OpenDataSource Name:=StrMMSrc, ReadOnly:=True, AddToRecentFiles:=False, _
        LinkToSource:=False, Connection:="Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;User ID=Admin;" & _
        "Data Source=StrMMSrc;Mode=Read;Extended Properties=""HDR=YES;IMEX=1"";", _
        SQLStatement:="SELECT * FROM `Sheet1$` WHERE Anz > 0"
      For i = 1 To .DataSource.RecordCount
        .Destination = wdSendToNewDocument
        .SuppressBlankLines = True
        With .DataSource
          .FirstRecord = i
          .LastRecord = i
          .ActiveRecord = i
          If Trim(.DataFields("ID")) = "" Then Exit For
          StrName = .DataFields("ID")
        MsgBox StrName
        End With
        .Execute Pause:=False
        For j = 1 To Len(StrNoChr)
          StrName = Replace(StrName, Mid(StrNoChr, j, 1), "_")
        Next
        StrName = Trim(StrName)
        MsgBox StrName
        MsgBox StrMMPath & i & "_" & StrName
        With wdApp.ActiveDocument
          .SaveAs Filename:=StrMMPath & i & "_" & StrName & ".docx", FileFormat:=wdFormatXMLDocument, AddToRecentFiles:=False
          ' and/or:
          '.SaveAs Filename:=StrMMPath & StrName & ".pdf", FileFormat:=wdFormatPDF, AddToRecentFiles:=False
          .Close SaveChanges:=False
        End With
      Next i
      .MainDocumentType = wdNotAMergeDocument
    End With
    .Close SaveChanges:=False
  End With
  .DisplayAlerts = wdAlertsAll
  .Quit
End With
Set wdDoc = Nothing: Set wdApp = Nothing
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
End Sub
It's hard to see how the merge, with or without the macro, could have any effect on the TT.MM.jjjj output order from:
=TEXT(TODAY();"TT.MM.jjjj")&"_VA + FVA_"&F2
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This is giving me some error-messages, but I have noticed that you changed the backslash in
{SKIPIF{MERGEFIELD Anz}= "0"}{QUOTE{INCLUDETEXT "{FILENAME \p}\..\sb{MERGEFIELD Anz}.docx"}}
to a double normal slash "//..//sb" and after I changed that in the word doc, the old excel code is running perfectly.

The only problem remaining is that Excel replaces "." with "_" can I somehow stop that?

I have the following .bat-file to change parts of names in a file.

How can I change the path to the path of the folder that the .bat file is in (so that everyone can use this on his computer)?
And can I integrate this in the excel vba code?

And here is what i wrote in the .bat-file:
Code:
@echo off
Setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
Set "Pattern=_"
Set "Replace=."
For %%# in ("C:\Users\AZEM\Work Folders\Desktop\Verteidigungsanzeigen\*.docx") Do (
    Set "File=%%~nx#"
    Ren "%%#" "!File:%Pattern%=%Replace%!"
)
Pause&Exit
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This is giving me some error-messages, but I have noticed that you changed the backslash in
{SKIPIF{MERGEFIELD Anz}= "0"}{QUOTE{INCLUDETEXT "{FILENAME \p}\..\sb{MERGEFIELD Anz}.docx"}}
to a double normal slash "//..//sb" and after I changed that in the word doc, the old excel code is running perfectly
You will also note I deleted the {SKIPIF{MERGEFIELD Anz}= "0"} - because it's redundant.
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The only problem remaining is that Excel replaces "." with "_" can I somehow stop that?
As I said, you should not have periods in filenames - which is precisely why they get changed by this:
"""*./\:?|"

I don't have time to work out what your batch file is supposed to do. In any event, whatever that is could be done far more efficiently by the macro for the files it generates.
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Old 02-08-2019, 05:06 AM
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I don't have time to work out what your batch file is supposed to do.
The batch file simply replaces all underscores "_" with periods "."

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In any event, whatever that is could be done far more efficiently by the macro for the files it generates
That was my question: Is it possible to "re-replace" the generated underscores "_" with periods "." ?
If not can I start the batch file with the excel code?
Or do my colleagues have to manually start the batch-file for replacing all "_" with "."?
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You don't need a batch file for that. All you need do if your heart is set on the poor practice of having periods in filenames is to delete the period indicated in my last post.
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Hello and sorry that I had to do a second account. I lost my password and I am at home so I cant read the emails dor my first account...


Thank you for your answer, Paul. That is working now.
But it is not working with our word-addins at work...


The problem is that i get only the first letter, all other letters get properly created but they are nearly empty - this is because our word-addins from our it...
Because the main document is "arguing" with the word addins and settings of our firm I cant take this as a solution ;(


Now I need to rework it and start the mailmerge out of excel with directly open the sb1.docx, sb2.docx and so on depending on what number stands in column A.



Could you please help me with changing the vba code?
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