I am wishing to insert blocks of text saved as building blocks (autotext) into a document based on the result attached to a variable bookmark
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Using autotext in MSO 2013
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Andrew Lockton
AskWoody_MVPApril 30, 2015 at 11:04 pm #1502556Do you need code to get started?
Code:Sub Macro1() Dim rng As Range If ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Exists("Hello") Then If ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Hello").Range.Text = "Hi" Then Set rng = ActiveDocument.Range rng.Collapse wdCollapseEnd ActiveDocument.AttachedTemplate.BuildingBlockEntries("MyBB").Insert Where:=rng, RichText:=True End If End If End Sub
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Charles Kenyon
AskWoody LoungerMay 1, 2015 at 10:32 pm #1502629You can also use an IF field to test for the value of the bookmark. The true text can be an AutoText field.
You question’s title is about Microsoft Office. AutoText and building blocks are available in Word. I do not know that they are available in other Office applications. AutoCorrect is available in most Office applications. Automated Boilerplate Using Microsoft Word.
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Bonriki
AskWoody LoungerMay 3, 2015 at 4:16 pm #1502839Charles hi
Can’t seem to get this to work.
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Charles Kenyon
AskWoody LoungerMay 3, 2015 at 6:11 pm #1502847Try attaching the document rather that a picture of it.
There is no good reason to nest your IF fields. It can cause problems if you nest too deep. I do not know what too deep is, but believe it is 16 levels. If each IF field simply has truetext it will only give results if there is a match.
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AskWoody_MVPMay 6, 2015 at 6:05 pm #1503219What code do you have? It is not overly dramatic to get the contents of a paragraph where the bookmark resides.
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(“Hello”).Range.Paragraphs(1).Range.Text – or something similarThe fact that there is an xml attribute that specifies “insertafter” could imply that there is another option to “insertbefore” or “insertinto”. We would need to see the code or do testing to know.
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