Run a macro on multiple docx. files

[cor]

This code sounds like something very useful for my needs. But I have docx files that have links to xlxs files and when opened there is a popup window asking whether I want to update yes or no. How will this macro handle that and/or can something be added to the macro to always answer YES to such question.

[cor]

I'm trying to get this UpdateDocuments to run from within excel, but it crashes at
Dim wdDoc as Document
with a "compile error: User-defined type not defined".
I want to use some data in the excel file to update my word documents with.
Any thoughts on how to do this?

[macropod]

The macro is a Word macro, not coded for running from Excel. To do that with the code in post #18, you'd need to set a reference to the Word object library (via Tools|References in the VBE), change:
Dim strFolder As String, strFile As String, wdDoc As Document, i As Long
to:
Dim strFolder As String, strFile As String, wdApp As New Word.Application, wdDoc As Word.Document, i As Long
change:
Set wdDoc = Documents.Open
to:
Set wdDoc = wdApp.Documents.Open
and change:
Set wdDoc = Nothing
to:
Set wdApp = Nothing: Set wdDoc = Nothing

To suppress link alerts, you might try inserting:
wdApp.DisplayAlerts = wdAlertsNone
before:
While strFile <> ""
and inserting:
wdApp.DisplayAlerts = wdAlertsAll
before:
Set wdApp = Nothing: Set wdDoc = Nothing

That said, it's not at all clear why you'd want to do this from Excel.

[AHKpie]

Dear Macropod and others, I have been inspired by Macropod's wonderfull script.
My macro2 will work in a 1 single folder. What do I have to change so it will also work for subfolders too? (By the way, macro2 extracts only the index of a document and saves that away.)

Sub OneFolderbatch()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim strFolder As String, strFile As String, wdDoc As Document
strFolder = GetFolder
If strFolder = "" Then Exit Sub
strFile = Dir(strFolder & "\*.doc", vbNormal)
While strFile <> ""
 Documents.Open FileName:=strFolder & "\" & strFile
  'Next line you can adapt the Macro to be executed for every document in a single folder
  Call Macro2

  ActiveDocument.Save
  ActiveDocument.Close
  
  strFile = Dir()
Wend
Set wdDoc = Nothing
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
 
Function GetFolder() As String
Dim oFolder As Object
GetFolder = ""
Set oFolder = CreateObject("Shell.Application").BrowseForFolder(0, "Choose a folder", 0)
If (Not oFolder Is Nothing) Then GetFolder = oFolder.Items.Item.path
Set oFolder = Nothing
End Function
 
Sub Macro2()
    With ActiveDocument
        'insert the TOC
        .TablesOfContents.Add _
                Range:=Selection.Range, _
                RightAlignPageNumbers:=True, _
                UseHeadingStyles:=True, _
                UpperHeadingLevel:=1, _
                LowerHeadingLevel:=5, _
                IncludePageNumbers:=True, _
                AddedStyles:="", _
                UseHyperlinks:=True, _
                HidePageNumbersInWeb:=True, _
                UseOutlineLevels:=True
        'select the TOC
        .TablesOfContents.Item(1).Range.Select
        ''Unlink the TOC field
        'Selection.Fields.Unlink
        'Copy the unlinked TOC
        Selection.copy
        'Undo the unlinking to restore the TOC field
        ActiveDocument.Undo 1
        'Next line is optional
        '.TablesOfContents.Item(1).Range.Delete
        Selection.WholeStory
        Selection.Delete Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
        Selection.PasteAndFormat (wdFormatOriginalFormatting)
    End With
    
End Sub

[macropod]

For adaptations to the code to process both a folder and its sub-folders, see post #15 in this thread: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-...html#post47785

[AHKpie]

Oooh I see what I have to change to make your code work!
Many many thanks for reading my post Macropod :-)

[Mohan01]

Hi macropod
I was also searching for similar solution to run a macro( which calls several macro) on multiple .doc stored in a folder
I am unable to know:
1. How exactly to create a macro with your code and then how to run it ?
2. I did normal procedure to create macro with sub name ( UpdateDocuments) . but it did not do any thing though I called another macro in this . can you add any code where it will ask for the folder to search for .doc files and run macro on it
Thanks!!




-Mohan

[macropod]

See the link to the installation & usage instructions in post #2.

[Lozfitz]

This page has been incredibly helpful this week, but i've got stuck trying to update this code to only update headers.footers.
I have other code that can update headers.footers, but when I to combine yours and mine together something falls over, and i've worn myself out trying to find the issue.
Please can you give me some any advice?

FYI - I am at this point, as I need to update a footer on 700 documents, but the code previously whilst did the job it also incorrectly added a carriage return at the end. So now i'm trying to use the same code but now 2 carriage return are in the footer so the footer is no longer visable.


My combined code

Sub UpdateDocuments()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim strInFolder As String, strOutFold As String, strFile As String, wdDoc As Document, oRng As Word.Range, hf As Word.HeaderFooter
strInFolder = GetFolder
If strInFolder = "" Then Exit Sub
strFile = Dir(strInFolder & "\*.doc", vbNormal)
'Check for documents in the folder - exit if none found
If strFile <> "" Then strOutFold = strInFolder & "\Output"
'Test for an existing outpfolder & create one if it doesn't already exist
If Dir(strOutFold, vbDirectory) = "" Then MkDir strOutFold
strFile = Dir(strInFolder & "\*.doc", vbNormal)
While strFile <> ""
  Set wdDoc = Documents.Open(FileName:=strInFolder & "" & strFile, AddToRecentFiles:=False, ReadOnly:=True, Visible:=False)
  Set oRng = hf.Range
    With wdDoc
          With oRng.Find
            .ClearFormatting
            .Replacement.ClearFormatting
            .Forward = True
            .Wrap = wdFindContinue
            .Format = False
            .MatchCase = False
            .MatchWholeWord = False
            .MatchWildcards = False
            .MatchSoundsLike = False
            .MatchAllWordForms = False
            .Text = "^p^p"
            .Replacement.Text = ""
            .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll

        End With
    'Save and close the document
    .SaveAs FileName:=strOutFold & .Name, AddToRecentFiles:=False
    .Close
  End With
  strFile = Dir()
Wend
Set wdDoc = Nothing
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
 
Function GetFolder() As String
Dim oFolder As Object
GetFolder = ""
Set oFolder = CreateObject("Shell.Application").BrowseForFolder(0, "Choose a folder", 0)
If (Not oFolder Is Nothing) Then GetFolder = oFolder.Items.Item.Path
Set oFolder = Nothing
End Function

[macropod]

For example:

Sub UpdateDocuments()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim strInFolder As String, strOutFold As String, strFile As String
Dim wdDoc As Document, Sctn As Section, HdFt As HeaderFooter
strInFolder = GetFolder: If strInFolder = "" Then Exit Sub
strFile = Dir(strInFolder & "\*.doc", vbNormal)
'Check for documents in the folder - exit if none found
If strFile <> "" Then strOutFold = strInFolder & "\Output"
'Test for an existing outpfolder & create one if it doesn't already exist
If Dir(strOutFold, vbDirectory) = "" Then MkDir strOutFold
strFile = Dir(strInFolder & "\*.doc", vbNormal)
While strFile <> ""
  Set wdDoc = Documents.Open(FileName:=strInFolder & "" & strFile, _
    AddToRecentFiles:=False, ReadOnly:=True, Visible:=False)
  With wdDoc
    'Process the body
    Call Update(.Range)
    For Each Sctn In .Sections
      'Process Headers
      For Each HdFt In Sctn.Headers
        With HdFt
          If Sctn.Index = 1 Then
            Call Update(.Range)
          ElseIf .LinkToPrevious = False Then
            Call Update(.Range)
          End If
        End With
      Next
      'Process Footers
      For Each HdFt In Sctn.Footers
        With HdFt
          If Sctn.Index = 1 Then
            Call Update(.Range)
          ElseIf .LinkToPrevious = False Then
            Call Update(.Range)
          End If
        End With
      Next
    Next
    'Save and close the document
    .SaveAs FileName:=strOutFold & .Name, AddToRecentFiles:=False
    .Close False
  End With
  strFile = Dir()
Wend
Set wdDoc = Nothing
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

Sub Update(Rng As Range)
With Rng.Find
  .ClearFormatting
  .Replacement.ClearFormatting
  .Text = "^p^p"
  .Replacement.Text = ""
  .Format = False
  .Forward = True
  .Wrap = wdFindStop
  .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With
End Sub
 
Function GetFolder() As String
Dim oFolder As Object
GetFolder = ""
Set oFolder = CreateObject("Shell.Application").BrowseForFolder(0, "Choose a folder", 0)
If (Not oFolder Is Nothing) Then GetFolder = oFolder.Items.Item.Path
Set oFolder = Nothing
End Function

[Venteux]

I have used this macro multiple times for different things and it's been great! However, I have two macros that I wanted to use it with, and I can't figure out why they're not working. When I run the macro on it's own for an active/open document, it works. But when I insert the code into this UpdateDocuments(), it doesn't work. The macro runs and I don't get any error messages, but when I open the individual files, nothing has been done to them. Am I doing something wrong?

I wanted to mark all documents in a specified folder as spelling and grammar checked already, and I wanted to accept all changes and stop tracking changes. This is the code I used:

Sub GrammarAndSpelling_Folder()

' GrammarAndSpelling_Folder macro that marks all of the documents in a specified folder as spelling and grammar checked already

Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim strFolder As String, strFile As String, strDocNm As String, wdDoc As Document
strDocNm = ActiveDocument.FullName: strFolder = GetFolder
If strFolder = "" Then Exit Sub
strFile = Dir(strFolder & "\*.docx", vbNormal)
While strFile <> ""
  If strFolder & "\" & strFile <> strDocNm Then
    Set wdDoc = Documents.Open(FileName:=strFolder & "\" & strFile, AddToRecentFiles:=False, Visible:=False)
    With wdDoc
      'Call your other macro or insert its code here
	ActiveDocument.SpellingChecked = True
	ActiveDocument.GrammarChecked = True
      .Close SaveChanges:=True
    End With
  End If
  strFile = Dir()
Wend
Set wdDoc = Nothing
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
 
Function GetFolder() As String
Dim oFolder As Object
GetFolder = ""
Set oFolder = CreateObject("Shell.Application").BrowseForFolder(0, "Choose a folder", 0)
If (Not oFolder Is Nothing) Then GetFolder = oFolder.Items.Item.Path
Set oFolder = Nothing
End Function

The second one was:

Sub TrackChanges_Folder()

' TrackChanges_Folder macro that accepts all changes and stop tracking

Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim strFolder As String, strFile As String, strDocNm As String, wdDoc As Document
strDocNm = ActiveDocument.FullName: strFolder = GetFolder
If strFolder = "" Then Exit Sub
strFile = Dir(strFolder & "\*.docx", vbNormal)
While strFile <> ""
  If strFolder & "\" & strFile <> strDocNm Then
    Set wdDoc = Documents.Open(FileName:=strFolder & "\" & strFile, AddToRecentFiles:=False, Visible:=False)
    With wdDoc
      'Call your other macro or insert its code here
    ActiveDocument.AcceptAllRevisions
    ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions = False
      .Close SaveChanges:=True
    End With
  End If
  strFile = Dir()
Wend
Set wdDoc = Nothing
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
 
Function GetFolder() As String
Dim oFolder As Object
GetFolder = ""
Set oFolder = CreateObject("Shell.Application").BrowseForFolder(0, "Choose a folder", 0)
If (Not oFolder Is Nothing) Then GetFolder = oFolder.Items.Item.Path
Set oFolder = Nothing
End Function

[learning2automate1]

Hi, I've been searching for the past few months on how to automate some of my mudane tasks at work. We typically update headers and footers or headers/footers separately to change dates or issuance names. I was able to find a macro to batch update headers which was awesome. My next task is to be able to find and replace a few words in the header and footer in multiple doc and docx files. I've tried the code mentioned however nothing happens and I believe it's because find/replace is not searching header/footer. I have another macro that works when i run it by itself however when adding it to the marco above I'm getting errors. Can you please tell me what's wrong with the macro and or how I can simplify it?

Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim strInFolder As String, strOutFold As String, strFile As String, wdDoc As Document
strInFolder = GetFolder
If strInFolder = "" Then Exit Sub
strFile = Dir(strInFolder & "\*.doc", vbNormal)
'Check for documents in the folder - exit if none found
If strFile <> "" Then strOutFold = strInFolder & "\Output"
'Test for an existing outpfolder & create one if it doesn't already exist
If Dir(strOutFold, vbDirectory) = "" Then MkDir strOutFold
strFile = Dir(strInFolder & "\*.doc", vbNormal)
While strFile <> ""
  Set wdDoc = Documents.Open(FileName:=strInFolder & "" & strFile, AddToRecentFiles:=False, ReadOnly:=True, Visible:=False)
  With wdDoc
Dim rngStory As Range

  For Each rngStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges

    With rngStory.Find

      .Text = "ICU Pavilion"

      .Replacement.Text = "ICU Pavilion Increment 5"

      .Wrap = wdFindContinue

      .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    With rngStory.Find
    
      .Text = "DR 26"

      .Replacement.Text = "DR 44"

      .Wrap = wdFindContinue

      .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
   With rngStory.Find

      .Text = "10/03/2022"

      .Replacement.Text = "01/10/2023"

      .Wrap = wdFindContinue

      .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
 End With
    'Save and close the document
    .SaveAs FileName:=strOutFold & .Name, AddToRecentFiles:=False
    .Close
  End With
  strFile = Dir()
Wend
Set wdDoc = Nothing
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub 
 
Function GetFolder() As String
Dim oFolder As Object
GetFolder = ""
Set oFolder = CreateObject("Shell.Application").BrowseForFolder(0, "Choose a folder", 0)
If (Not oFolder Is Nothing) Then GetFolder = oFolder.Items.Item.Path
Set oFolder = Nothing
End Function

I'm receiving "compile error: function call on left hand side of assignment must return variant object" this on GetFolder

[macropod]

The code in post #25 already executes a Find/Replace, including in headers & footers, in all documents in a folder. All you need do is modify the Update(Rng As Range) sub, thus:

Sub Update(Rng As Range)
With Rng.Find
  .ClearFormatting
  .Replacement.ClearFormatting
  .Format = False
  .Forward = True
  .Wrap = wdFindContinue
  .Text = "ICU Pavilion"
  .Replacement.Text = "ICU Pavilion Increment 5"
  .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
  .Text = "DR 26"
  .Replacement.Text = "DR 44"
  .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
  .Text = "10/03/2022"
  .Replacement.Text = "01/10/2023"
  .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With
End Sub