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Quickest method (from user's perspective) of populating a tabl
The text in each cell will be different.
I’m currently updating each cell individually, but I haven’t tried Greg’s ..Next property/method –I imagine that has to be faster than indexing into the table using the Cell object. What I’m really trying to find out is: Does anyone know THE FASTEST METHOD (from the user’s perspective) of accomplishing this? I thought pasting would be even faster than snaking through each cell, but it doesn’t seem like anyone wants to touch this one (or is it just a silly assumption?). -- ashwin "Beth Melton" wrote: Is the string of characters for each cell the same? Is there a reason you can't modify the macro Greg provided to fit your needs? All you need to do is change: oCell.Range.Text = i & "." to oCell.Range.Text = "Your string of characters". Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "ashwin" wrote in message ... No problem, Beth, I'll do my best... I have a table with one hundred rows and I know exactly what I want each cell to contain -a string of characters. What is the quickest way to populate that table programmatically? Accessing each cell individually is pretty slow, especially if I'm doing this for 200 tables. Excel allows you to populate a Sheet using an array and I know Word will convert text formatted with tabs and carriage returns into a table, but how do I quickly populate a table that already exists? At this point, it looks like the answer may be the Windows clipboard -which I'm now trying to figure out how to access/populate from VBA. Thank you for your patience, -- ashwin "Beth Melton" wrote: Perhaps there is a faster way, however, we need more details on what you are attempting to accomplish. Populating a table with text is pretty vague. Word isn't a mind reader and while it may appear that at times we are mind readers we're not. :-) |
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Quickest method (from user's perspective) of populating a tabl
I think the underlying problem with providing you with the answer you are
looking for is we still don't understand where you are getting the text you intend to place in each cell. IOW, other than populate a table with some text we don't know what you are attempting to accomplish. If we don't know what you are trying to accomplish then we don't have any recommendations. Perhaps you could provide some background on where you are getting the text/data and what you want as the final result. Additionally, what you mean by "user's perspective" would be good to know too. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "ashwin" wrote in message news The text in each cell will be different. I'm currently updating each cell individually, but I haven't tried Greg's .Next property/method -I imagine that has to be faster than indexing into the table using the Cell object. What I'm really trying to find out is: Does anyone know THE FASTEST METHOD (from the user's perspective) of accomplishing this? I thought pasting would be even faster than snaking through each cell, but it doesn't seem like anyone wants to touch this one (or is it just a silly assumption?). -- ashwin "Beth Melton" wrote: Is the string of characters for each cell the same? Is there a reason you can't modify the macro Greg provided to fit your needs? All you need to do is change: oCell.Range.Text = i & "." to oCell.Range.Text = "Your string of characters". "ashwin" wrote in message ... No problem, Beth, I'll do my best... I have a table with one hundred rows and I know exactly what I want each cell to contain -a string of characters. What is the quickest way to populate that table programmatically? Accessing each cell individually is pretty slow, especially if I'm doing this for 200 tables. Excel allows you to populate a Sheet using an array and I know Word will convert text formatted with tabs and carriage returns into a table, but how do I quickly populate a table that already exists? At this point, it looks like the answer may be the Windows clipboard -which I'm now trying to figure out how to access/populate from VBA. Thank you for your patience, -- ashwin "Beth Melton" wrote: Perhaps there is a faster way, however, we need more details on what you are attempting to accomplish. Populating a table with text is pretty vague. Word isn't a mind reader and while it may appear that at times we are mind readers we're not. :-) |
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Quickest method (from user's perspective) of populating a tabl
I have a DAO.Recordset I want to display in a table.
The table is already formatted. I want to fill the table as quickly as possible from the user’s perspective (the shortest amount of time as it will appear to the end-user while the system is running). -- ashwin "Beth Melton" wrote: I think the underlying problem with providing you with the answer you are looking for is we still don't understand where you are getting the text you intend to place in each cell. IOW, other than populate a table with some text we don't know what you are attempting to accomplish. If we don't know what you are trying to accomplish then we don't have any recommendations. Perhaps you could provide some background on where you are getting the text/data and what you want as the final result. Additionally, what you mean by "user's perspective" would be good to know too. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "ashwin" wrote in message news The text in each cell will be different. I'm currently updating each cell individually, but I haven't tried Greg's .Next property/method -I imagine that has to be faster than indexing into the table using the Cell object. What I'm really trying to find out is: Does anyone know THE FASTEST METHOD (from the user's perspective) of accomplishing this? I thought pasting would be even faster than snaking through each cell, but it doesn't seem like anyone wants to touch this one (or is it just a silly assumption?). -- ashwin "Beth Melton" wrote: Is the string of characters for each cell the same? Is there a reason you can't modify the macro Greg provided to fit your needs? All you need to do is change: oCell.Range.Text = i & "." to oCell.Range.Text = "Your string of characters". "ashwin" wrote in message ... No problem, Beth, I'll do my best... I have a table with one hundred rows and I know exactly what I want each cell to contain -a string of characters. What is the quickest way to populate that table programmatically? Accessing each cell individually is pretty slow, especially if I'm doing this for 200 tables. Excel allows you to populate a Sheet using an array and I know Word will convert text formatted with tabs and carriage returns into a table, but how do I quickly populate a table that already exists? At this point, it looks like the answer may be the Windows clipboard -which I'm now trying to figure out how to access/populate from VBA. Thank you for your patience, -- ashwin "Beth Melton" wrote: Perhaps there is a faster way, however, we need more details on what you are attempting to accomplish. Populating a table with text is pretty vague. Word isn't a mind reader and while it may appear that at times we are mind readers we're not. :-) |
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Quickest method (from user's perspective) of populating a tabl
NOW we're getting somewhere. :-)
Can't you use something like: Set oCell = Selection.Tables(1).Cell(1, 1) Do While Not rs.EOF oCell.Range.Text = rs.Fields("FieldName") Set oCell = oCell.Next rs.MoveNext Loop I tested this with around 400 records and it only took a second or two. Note I also used an ADO recordset but that shouldn't matter that much. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "ashwin" wrote in message ... I have a DAO.Recordset I want to display in a table. The table is already formatted. I want to fill the table as quickly as possible from the user's perspective (the shortest amount of time as it will appear to the end-user while the system is running). -- ashwin "Beth Melton" wrote: I think the underlying problem with providing you with the answer you are looking for is we still don't understand where you are getting the text you intend to place in each cell. IOW, other than populate a table with some text we don't know what you are attempting to accomplish. If we don't know what you are trying to accomplish then we don't have any recommendations. Perhaps you could provide some background on where you are getting the text/data and what you want as the final result. Additionally, what you mean by "user's perspective" would be good to know too. "ashwin" wrote in message news The text in each cell will be different. I'm currently updating each cell individually, but I haven't tried Greg's .Next property/method -I imagine that has to be faster than indexing into the table using the Cell object. What I'm really trying to find out is: Does anyone know THE FASTEST METHOD (from the user's perspective) of accomplishing this? I thought pasting would be even faster than snaking through each cell, but it doesn't seem like anyone wants to touch this one (or is it just a silly assumption?). -- ashwin "Beth Melton" wrote: Is the string of characters for each cell the same? Is there a reason you can't modify the macro Greg provided to fit your needs? All you need to do is change: oCell.Range.Text = i & "." to oCell.Range.Text = "Your string of characters". "ashwin" wrote in message ... No problem, Beth, I'll do my best... I have a table with one hundred rows and I know exactly what I want each cell to contain -a string of characters. What is the quickest way to populate that table programmatically? Accessing each cell individually is pretty slow, especially if I'm doing this for 200 tables. Excel allows you to populate a Sheet using an array and I know Word will convert text formatted with tabs and carriage returns into a table, but how do I quickly populate a table that already exists? At this point, it looks like the answer may be the Windows clipboard -which I'm now trying to figure out how to access/populate from VBA. Thank you for your patience, -- ashwin "Beth Melton" wrote: Perhaps there is a faster way, however, we need more details on what you are attempting to accomplish. Populating a table with text is pretty vague. Word isn't a mind reader and while it may appear that at times we are mind readers we're not. :-) |
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