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Multiple Word Document Objects in 1 project? Is it possible?
(Posted this earlier but it didn't seem to propogate, sorry if this is a
double). Hi, I have a word document which is about 20 pages long. It is 2 pages of form fields which are then used to fill out the rest of the form. Unfortunately, it takes a noticeable amount of time for the document to load and I will be adding more documents (another 1-200 pages) in the near future. What I was thinking of doing is having several documents, all part of the same project (as different objects I guess). This way I could load the documents as I need them and cut down on the load time (which I gather will increase a lot more as I add these documents). I haven't been able to find a way to add word documents to the project, whenever I try it just adds another project that I can switch between. Can anyone help, or does anyone have a different idea? Thanks, Adam |
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Multiple Word Document Objects in 1 project? Is it possible?
The technique described at http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm to insert
documents based on a form field selection may help. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Adam Steiner wrote: (Posted this earlier but it didn't seem to propogate, sorry if this is a double). Hi, I have a word document which is about 20 pages long. It is 2 pages of form fields which are then used to fill out the rest of the form. Unfortunately, it takes a noticeable amount of time for the document to load and I will be adding more documents (another 1-200 pages) in the near future. What I was thinking of doing is having several documents, all part of the same project (as different objects I guess). This way I could load the documents as I need them and cut down on the load time (which I gather will increase a lot more as I add these documents). I haven't been able to find a way to add word documents to the project, whenever I try it just adds another project that I can switch between. Can anyone help, or does anyone have a different idea? Thanks, Adam |
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Multiple Word Document Objects in 1 project? Is it possible?
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
... The technique described at http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm to insert documents based on a form field selection may help. -- Hi Graham, That looks like it would work, although each file would be seperate. Out of curiosity though, is it possible to have all of those files within a single document, but as seperate document objects? |
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Multiple Word Document Objects in 1 project? Is it possible?
I am not sure what you are getting at here. You should aim to end up with a
single document, into which you can insert other documents (or parts of other documents) using INCLUDETEXT fields as required. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Adam Steiner wrote: "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... The technique described at http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm to insert documents based on a form field selection may help. -- Hi Graham, That looks like it would work, although each file would be seperate. Out of curiosity though, is it possible to have all of those files within a single document, but as seperate document objects? |
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Multiple Word Document Objects in 1 project? Is it possible?
My bad. I was misreading some of the things on the link you sent me. This
will work. I was thinking that when you're in the VB IDE it says 'ThisDocument' by Word objects, I was wondering if, from there, you could put ThisDocument2 etc in the same project. --Adam "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... I am not sure what you are getting at here. You should aim to end up with a single document, into which you can insert other documents (or parts of other documents) using INCLUDETEXT fields as required. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Adam Steiner wrote: "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... The technique described at http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm to insert documents based on a form field selection may help. -- Hi Graham, That looks like it would work, although each file would be seperate. Out of curiosity though, is it possible to have all of those files within a single document, but as seperate document objects? |
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Multiple Word Document Objects in 1 project? Is it possible?
Hi, Adam,
I think you've just been confused by some ill-considered terminology (a.k.a. "Softyisms"). Word is *not* like Visual Studio -- it has no concept of workspaces or projects with documents nested within them, or anything like that. One document is one document, period. The document may contain links that make it display parts of other documents, but they remain separate documents all the same. The VBA IDE (which is actually a separate program from Word) shows that each template and document has a code module named ThisDocument, but that is *not* a document -- it's just a container for code. You can name your code modules pretty much anything you like, but they won't be documents at all, let alone separate documents within a project. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Adam Steiner wrote: My bad. I was misreading some of the things on the link you sent me. This will work. I was thinking that when you're in the VB IDE it says 'ThisDocument' by Word objects, I was wondering if, from there, you could put ThisDocument2 etc in the same project. --Adam "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... I am not sure what you are getting at here. You should aim to end up with a single document, into which you can insert other documents (or parts of other documents) using INCLUDETEXT fields as required. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Adam Steiner wrote: "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... The technique described at http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm to insert documents based on a form field selection may help. -- Hi Graham, That looks like it would work, although each file would be seperate. Out of curiosity though, is it possible to have all of those files within a single document, but as seperate document objects? |
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Multiple Word Document Objects in 1 project? Is it possible?
(repost due to propogation issues)
"Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... Hi, Adam, I think you've just been confused by some ill-considered terminology (a.k.a. "Softyisms"). Word is *not* like Visual Studio -- it has no concept of workspaces or projects with documents nested within them, or anything like that. One document is one document, period. The document may contain links that make it display parts of other documents, but they remain separate documents all the same. The VBA IDE (which is actually a separate program from Word) shows that each template and document has a code module named ThisDocument, but that is *not* a document -- it's just a container for code. You can name your code modules pretty much anything you like, but they won't be documents at all, let alone separate documents within a project. Jay, Aha, now it makes sense. I had been under the impression that each module (ThisDocument) represented an actual document in addition to the code. Would you be able to point me in a direction of a website which discusses how to use the Word document object outside of Word? Such as if I were to use Visual Studio to write an app that contained multiple documents (which I may do now). Thanks Adam |
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Multiple Word Document Objects in 1 project? Is it possible?
"Adam Steiner" wrote:
Jay, Aha, now it makes sense. I had been under the impression that each module (ThisDocument) represented an actual document in addition to the code. Would you be able to point me in a direction of a website which discusses how to use the Word document object outside of Word? Such as if I were to use Visual Studio to write an app that contained multiple documents (which I may do now). Thanks Adam I don't recall seeing anything that addresses the issue head-on, but here are a couple of pages on the MVP site that show samples in the course of discussing other topics: http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/interd...ateBinding.htm http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/interd...meInstance.htm http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/InterD...WordFromXL.htm Creating and using a Word object from standalone VB is very much the same as doing it in VBA within another Office app such as Excel. And once you have a Word object, you use the methods and properties of the object model just as if you were in Word VBA. Before you jump into this with both feet, though, figure out whether what you want can be done entirely within Word. A single macro can open and manipulate two, three, or more documents simultaneously, just not in the way you were thinking before. For example, this dumb little macro opens an existing file, creates two new blank documents, and makes copies of the first paragraph of the first file in the other two. When the macro finishes, you can use the Window menu to visit each document and verify that it worked. Sub MultiDocSample() Dim SourceDoc As Document Dim Target1 As Document, Target2 As Document Dim SourceRg As Range, TargetRg As Range ' on error goto bye ' open existing doc Set SourceDoc = Documents.Open("C:\temp\test.doc") ' make 2 new blank docs Set Target1 = Documents.Add ' default Normal.dot Set Target2 = Documents.Add ' default Normal.dot ' point to 1st paragraph of source Set SourceRg = SourceDoc.Paragraphs(1).Range ' point to Target1 and copy source there Set TargetRg = Target1.Range TargetRg.FormattedText = SourceRg.FormattedText ' point to Target2 and copy source there Set TargetRg = Target2.Range TargetRg.FormattedText = SourceRg.FormattedText bye: ' clean up Set SourceDoc = Nothing Set Target1 = Nothing Set Target2 = Nothing Set SourceRg = Nothing Set TargetRg = Nothing End Sub -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word |
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