String will not fully concatenate

[aramaglia]

Hello,

So I have a word document that when the user closes it out, I would like the document to save itself in its current folder as well as save as a PDF (which is already existing and should be overwritten) in a different folder. In order to reference the correct PDF when saving, I am using the text (just an 9-digit number) from a table cell in the word document and using that text as part of the folder path to the PDF file.

The problem is that when I am storing the 9-digit number as a string variable ("QN" below in the code), the variable that I am using for the file path (RefDocPath) to the PDF file will not store any text after the "QN" variable. I inserted a msgbox to see what was being stored and it shows a dot in the string after the "QN" variable. (See attached photo). I've never seen this before and I do not know what to do.

Private Sub Document_Close()

Dim RefDocPath As String
Dim QN As String
Dim Doc As Document

    Application.DisplayAlerts = False
    QN = ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(2, 2).Range.Text
    RefDocPath = "G:\Shared\Ref_Docs\Quality Alerts\X_X_" & QN & "_X_X_QualityAlerts.pdf"
    MsgBox RefDocPath
    
    ThisDocument.Save
    ThisDocument.SaveAs2 FileName:=(RefDocPath), AddtoRecentFiles:=False, FileFormat:=wdFormatPDF
    Application.DisplayAlerts = True
    
End Sub

[dwirony]

Did you try a message box to test for the string value of QN as well? Is it possible that it's capturing that extra dot at the end there?

[aramaglia]

Thanks dwirony, I don't know why I didn't think of that. I tried it and yes, that dot is appearing in the msgbox with the QN string variable. Why is that doing that and how do I get rid of it?

[aramaglia]

Apparently the dot at the end of the text is the character for table end, which is showing up when i call the cell text. There is another character at the end too which I'm guessing marks the end of the cell. To workaround this I used the Left() function to eliminate the last 2 characters of the string:

QN = Left(ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(2, 2).Range.Text, Len(ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(2, 2).Range.Text) - 2)

[dwirony]

Ahh there ya go. I wasn't sure if it was the table end marker or just what was populating in your table - I was going to provide a solution to eliminate that symbol all together but your solution is much more efficient!

[macropod]

Even more efficient:
QN = Split(ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(2, 2).Range.Text, vbCr)(0)