Scan all existing listBoxes in a document and retrieve the selected value.

Wire.Lless · #1 04-03-2019, 09:10 AM

Hello.
I have a number of MS Word documents that all have the same layout.
I wish:
1- open each document

2- browse through all the listboxes in each document

3-For each listbox:

I want to retrieve the value that is selected

For the moment I have managed to program the first part: Loop on several Word documents:

Code:

Public wordApp As New Word.Application
Public Sub Ouvrir_Tout_Les_Fichiers()
Dim Fichier_Objet As String
 
titre = "Ouvrir le(s) fichier(s)"
Filt = "Fichier(s) a integrer (*.docm;*.doc;*.docx),*.docm;*.doc;*.docx"
fileToOpen = Application.GetOpenFilename(FileFilter:=Filt, Title:=titre, MultiSelect:=True)
 
For I = LBound(fileToOpen) To UBound(fileToOpen)
 
    FilePath = Left(fileToOpen(I), InStrRev(fileToOpen(I), "\"))
    Fichier_Objet = Mid(fileToOpen(I), InStrRev(fileToOpen(I), "\") + 1)
    Set wordApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
    wordApp.Documents.Open fileToOpen(I)
    wordApp.Visible = True
 
    File_Name = UBound(fileToOpen)
 
    Call _2browse_through_all_the_listboxes_in_each_document(I, Fichier_Objet)
 
    wordApp.Documents.Close
    wordApp.Quit
 
Next I
 
End Sub

In each document I try to browse all the listboxes!

Apparently the listboxes are "ContentControlListEntry" objects...
https://docs.microsoft.com/fr-fr/off...ntrollistentry

... which are contained in "ContentControl" objects

https://docs.microsoft.com/fr-fr/off...ntent-controls

Code:

Public Sub _2browse_through_all_the_listboxes_in_each_document(I, Fichier_Objet)
Dim objCc As ContentControl
Dim objLe As ContentControlListEntry
 
Debug.Print Fichier_Objet
 
For Each objCc In wordApp.ActiveDocument.ContentControls
   For Each objLe In objCc.DropdownListEntries
        Debug.Print objLe.Text
        Debug.Print objLe.Index
        Debug.Print objLe.Value
        'Debug.Print objLe.Creator
   Next
Next
 
End Sub

I try to browse all the listboxes (objCc.DropdownListEntries) and extract the value that has been selected. But it's impossible to find the right property!
I managed to extract objLe.Text; objLe.Index; objLe.Value ... but I can't find anything that looks like the value that was chosen in the list box. (maybe the visible property = true ... or something like that??)

...
I managed to successfully extract the values of the "checkboxes" and the values of the "user fields"... but I really block on these "listboxes":

Code:

Public Sub Extract_user_fields_and_checkbox(I, Fichier_Objet)
Dim ch As Field
Dim Ctrl As ContentControl
 
Debug.Print Fichier_Objet
 
For Each ch In wordApp.ActiveDocument.Fields
   If ch.Type = "70" Then
      Debug.Print "Index ", ch.Index
      Debug.Print "Result ", ch.Result
      Debug.Print "Type ", ch.Type
   End If
Next ch
 
For Each Ctrl In wordApp.ActiveDocument.ContentControls
   If Ctrl.Type = "8" Then
      If Ctrl.Checked = True Then
         Debug.Print Ctrl.Tag
         Debug.Print Ctrl.ID
         Debug.Print "True"
      Else
         Debug.Print Ctrl.Tag
         Debug.Print Ctrl.ID
         Debug.Print "False"
 
      End If
   End If
Next
End Sub

Does anyone have any idea how to proceed?
Thank you very much

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