Word VBA. How best to insert sections of other documents into a main document.

mc1903 · #1 10-07-2021, 05:26 AM

Hello,

I am looking for advice on the best approach to a challenge I have today.

I have a main Word document that I would like to insert sections of other Word documents (I'll call these documents 'snippets') into, to build out a boilerplate.

All documents (main & snippets) are built from the same template, so styles, etc are identical.

In each of my snippet documents, the section I wish to insert is currently bounded by simple text tags {start} & {end} each on their own otherwise blank pages. If there is a better way to identify the wanted section in each snippet doc, then I am open to changing from text tags.

I have some VBA working to give me a dialog box where I can select the multiple snippet documents and currently I am just outputting the full path of each file to Debug.Print. I am not sure how to process each snippet document, to locate the section between the tags, and insert it into the main doc.

Code:

Sub SelectSnippetFiles()
 
    Dim mfd As FileDialog
    Dim FileChosen As Integer
    Dim i As Integer
    Set mfd = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFilePicker)
        mfd.InitialView = msoFileDialogViewList
        mfd.AllowMultiSelect = True
    FileChosen = mfd.Show
    
    If FileChosen = -1 Then
        For i = 1 To mfd.SelectedItems.Count
            Debug.Print mfd.SelectedItems(i)
            'I need something here to process the snippet sections :-/
        Next i
    End If

 End Sub

If anyone could give me a few pointers, I would be really grateful.

I am using Office 365, so have pretty much the latest version.

Thanks
M

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