Excel VBA Introduction Part 27.1 - Creating Word Documents

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[@jmathew6988]

This tutorial stands out among all other KZbin videos discussing the topic Excel VBA - Word. Thanks Andrew.

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[@oz7075]

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[@chrisgray8774]

Even my Word 2016 is outdated by now, but your techniques still apply. Thank you for your help.

[@WiseOwlTutorials]

Thanks Chris, happy to hear you found it useful!

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[@WiseOwlTutorials]

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[@MrDontuknowme]

This is a beautifully made tutorial. You are amazingly knowledgeable and are fantastic at conveying that knowledge. Thank YOU!

[@WiseOwlTutorials]

Thank you! Happy to hear that you enjoyed the video and thank you for taking the time to leave such a nice comment!

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Extremely detailed and easy to understand, this video is more helpful than the VBA courses I've had before, thank you so much.

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Hi, I want to thank you for all of your great videos on vba. I've got a lot of help over the last years from you and, I LOVE the way you say "reference". Please throw more references in there and keep up the good work

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[@WiseOwlTutorials]

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[@kapibara2440]

This is a brilliant video! Thank you Wise Owl ❤

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Hi Andrew, thank you so much! Amazing video seen so far!

[@m.mohtashim2000]

I really appreciate your tutorials Andrew, they helped me learn a lot. One thing I would advise you to do is that get the different sections inside the description box and youtube will create navigation panes for the video and that way it will be easier to navigate to specific sections of tutorials.

[@WiseOwlTutorials]

Thanks yes, we've been adding chapters to all of the videos we release for the past six months or so. We haven't had the time to go back to the hundreds of older videos to do the same yet! I'm happy to hear that you found the video useful anyway, thank you for watching and for sharing that tip!

[@m.mohtashim2000]

@@WiseOwlTutorialsOhh I see, I understand it will take quite a long time to do that for each video. Much Appreciated😊

[@WiseOwlTutorials]

@@m.mohtashim2000 Indeed it will - I wish we hadn't made so many videos now!

[@m.mohtashim2000]

@@WiseOwlTutorials Can I make a request to you. Can you please make an in-depth tutorial on word macros as well.

[@WiseOwlTutorials]

@@m.mohtashim2000 Hi there! I don't think it's very likely that we'll have an entire series on Word macros although we will probably have the occasional video involving Word.

[@dadz1299]

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[@Trucpq]

So helpful and excelent explanation !

[@WiseOwlTutorials]

Thanks! Glad you found it useful, thank you for watching!

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Thank you Arkady!

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Thanks Andrew for the useful video

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[@MrRusseltjj]

Thank you so much, my code works perfectly now!

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Thanks, glad you liked it!

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[@adriancelis9691]

Great explanation. Thanks!

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[@lietus0]

For someone in future, if you are looking to copy embedded chart you should use something like this in your code: Dim MyChart As ChartObject Set MyChart = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("DOC").ChartObjects("Chart 1") MyChart.Chart.ChartArea.Copy .Selection.GoTo what:=-1, Name:="ChartLocation" .Selection.Paste

[@WiseOwlTutorials]

Hi Matiss, thanks for this, we do cover referencing ChartObjects in a separate video kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKa1qKewi9xqi7M but it's always useful to have tips like this around to help remind people. Thanks for taking the time to add it and for watching!

[@KawanExcel]

This is so much.... Thanks Andrew

[@WiseOwlTutorials]

You're very welcome! Glad you enjoyed this video too and thank you for watching!

[@cullenharris1837]

Is anyone else getting an error in the SaveAs2 line at the 29:30 mark? It says to check the path or select a file from the list.... any advice is greatly appreciated!

[@dksuthar31]

thank you wise owl

[@WiseOwlTutorials]

You're welcome Deepak, thanks for watching!

[@ssa1632]

Thank you so much! Superb! Would u please guide me the code for making two pages in word documents for two separate ranges in Excel!

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thank you, sir for this well-designed tutorial, What about MS access, are you planning for making a tutorial for it too?

[@kirayamatofication]

This is really a big help explaining pulling a microsoft application from another. But do you have videos running VBA with outlook as the main application and running excel then after using outlook codes?

[@kirayamatofication]

Ah... This will come handy. Thanks a bunch!

[@timcago]

Can you make a video that shows how to pull data from queries in VBA and update sheets in the workbook? In the business world this is what you end up needing to use VBA for most of the time.

[@91alezander]

It is possible to generate a word template from every excel row individually. In excel I need a button to appear on every new row I populate with data and the button must open the word template that was fill with the data that I populate the row. And also i need the autofill word template to be save in a specified location. Thank you!

[@glennlaanekorb9168]

Well explained video and was super easy to follow. How would you take cells out of the excel table and insert into word document in a custom table that is created with VBA code?

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[@WiseOwlTutorials]

Thanks!

[@sandicanales8081]

Hi there, thus far WiseOwlTutorials are the best from all other tutorials I've watched to learn using VBA. I need help on something I'm sure is easy for you. I have an excel sheet with word information across in different cells. I simple need to structure a module that exports it all into a word document vertically using groups of cell aligned below each other like a paragraph. What are the codes i need to organize each cell. Do I have to set bookmarks (I don't even know what that is). Your guidance is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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Thanks , Perfect way of exlpanation

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Great lecture!

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Thank you very much!

[@WiseOwlTutorials]

You're very welcome Fabian, thank you for watching!

[@Chris_in_fremantle]

Excellent tutorial.

[@jordanjvansickle]

This is great! How can I get my data to automatically scale to fit the word document? The data in Excel fits within the page guidelines, but it does not when I transfer it to Word.

[@Rebel36X]

Excellent Video! Just wondering if I can SaveAs my document using data from a cell in my document title?

[@watawonderfulworld]

just toooooo good... thanks a lot for sharing

[@abheetkansal3790]

Great walkthrough! I wanted to ask what if I have an excel sheet and want to generate a word document which is a form but want somethings autofilled from that excel row. The main issue I am facing is how to fit that excel data in that row from cells to particular places in my form Any ideas??

[@WiseOwlTutorials]

Hi! You can use bookmarks in the Word document and apply the GoTo method to select them docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/word.selection.goto There's some basic sample code here stackoverflow.com/questions/2725550/how-to-jump-to-a-bookmark-in-word-vba-and-insert-text I hope it helps!

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Fantastic lesson - thank you very much!!!

[@arvindkumarauro9731]

Thanks a ton sir 😘

[@WiseOwlTutorials]

You're very welcome Arvind!

[@MonikaR2006]

Thank you very much for this very well explained tutorial. I seem to have an issue with selecting the range I want to use. Copying your example, I get an error message and nothing is displayed (Range("A2", Range("A2").End(x1Down).End(x1ToRight)).Copy). In fact in may case, I would like to have the range start at A2 - down - to I and down. Perhaps this is not something to be solved just via this message?

[@fakename6300]

Syntax should be; Range("A2", Range("A2").End(xlDown).End(xlToRight)).Copy 1's should be l's

[@retrofutur1st]

Thank you!!!!

[@WiseOwlTutorials]

You're welcome!

[@shaileshsharma668]

Thanks for enhancing our skills Your video is some awesome I just want to say that could you please create SAP GUI automation through VBA

[@WiseOwlTutorials]

Thanks Shaielsh! Unfortunately I've no experience with SAP so it's unlikely we'll have any videos on that topic, sorry!

[@shaileshsharma668]

@@WiseOwlTutorials no issue thanks a lot, I have learned lot of things from you plz upload more and more so that we can enhance our skill

[@ricardobrizuela7589]

awesome video!

[@singhdevprashant]

Pls suggest VBA code to copy specific selections from one Word file to another, by opening data from one file and copying it to other using VBA. Thanks a lot in advance.

[@cekinci]

Hi Andrew, first I would like to say your videos are great, and can't believe this to be free!! Anyways, I would like to know if I could edit a word file like a contract, and change the data within using my excel worksheet. For instance, I only use "find-replace" to edit manually, but I would like to automate it if possible?

[@RamboRoberto2905]

Hello: please advise how to center a text vertically (as Page Setup/Layout/Page/Center). Also, please advise how to enter a new page in the created word document (as page break). In your video you showed how to enter a new line (with .TypeText vbnewline) or new paragraph (.Typeparagraph). Thank you.

[@CallipygianMoose]

great video and it works perfectly so thanks! I would like to add something else to this but I'm not sure how....> my table that I am importing to word has some cells that contain formulas that are returning null-strings. Unfortunately when the table is imported to word it imports the blank rows. I could of course just delete them after they have been imported, however I thought Id ask if there was a way using VBA code when selecting the columns to be sent to word, to ignore all cells containing null-strings? currently i could have values on row a, nothing on row b, values on row c etc in any order. I only want VBA to take data from the table of values that contains a value, and I do not want gaps between. I dont necesarily want to remove the formula or the null-string from the Excel document its self, I just want it to ignore those cells when exporting and sort it in such a way that there are no gaps where nullstrings would have been.

[@drrupeshgupta]

Very nice tutorial… Will like to know if it is possible to export text only from excel to word??

[@drrupeshgupta]

***** Hello dear, Can I run it on mac? When I run the script on mac, i get "ActiveX component can't create object error" Any clues?

[@chriscook4076]

Hello Andrew. Thanks for the great video tutorial! I was hoping that you might post a video (or perhaps reply with the code) to copy only specific cells from excel to the bookmarks in word. In my job I put together contracts that have repetitive information and I wanted to put together a one page "Questionnaire" (for lack of a better term) to inject the "answers" into whichever page of the word doc it relates to using the bookmark method. Any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated!

[@farahadibah6958]

Hai, ur video is wonderful.. i need help.. now this tutorial teaches how to copy the whole table data but how can i only copy a selected data from the table to the assigned bookmark in word? For example if i have 100 ppl i just want to transfer 1 person data from the worksheet by assigning condition like i will enter a siri no. at “E3”cell so if the siri no. in E3 is equal to the siri no. of that 1 person in the table then i want to transfer the whole data of of that person only into word. Not the whole table. How to write vba code for that? Thank you in advance

[@WiseOwlTutorials]

Thank you Farah! I think that you might find this video on the Find method useful kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYu5hIlvjpyHfdk You can search for the "siri no." using the value of E3 and then copy the row that you find. I hope it helps!

[@martinvarela206]

Hi!, there are any chances that you make a tutorial or at least offer a link about manipulate style list from excel vba, with data (like items, if they use number or dots, the level of the item) on a table, for give format in word?

[@makifguzey]

Thanks a lot, great video.

[@freebeatingheart3006]

Thanks for this excellent tutorial. How can the cell heights and widths be retained when copied over to Word?

[@freebeatingheart3006]

+WiseOwlTutorials Thanks. With a slight tweek I used: Range("A1", "I56").CopyPicture wdapp.Selection.Paste "Current region" seems to select one cell only.

[@ec_789]

Thank you very much for your awesome videos

[@kjalihal]

Thanks a lot for the video, can you please show how to loop through the bookmarks created in word document using the .Selection.GoTo statement to be able to paste different tables at different bookmarks Thanks in advance...

[@WiseOwlTutorials]

Hi Kiran, you can use this code as an outline, I hope it helps! Sub LoopBookmarks() Dim wd As Word.Application Dim doc As Word.Document Dim bm As Word.Bookmark Dim r As Word.Range Set wd = New Word.Application wd.Visible = True Set doc = wd.Documents.Open("C:\MyDoc.docx") For Each bm In doc.Bookmarks Set r = doc.GoTo( _ What:=wdGoToBookmark, _ Name:=bm.Name) 'Copy something from Excel r.Paste Next bm End Sub

[@kjalihal]

@@WiseOwlTutorials Thanks for the reply. Actually what I am trying to do is first loop through the excel sheets and copy the tables and then each table should be pasted at different bookmarks. Below is the complete code which I am trying. Sub ListObjectToWord() 'Declare Word Variables Dim WrdApp As Word.Application 'Declare Excel Variables Dim ExclisObj As ListObject Dim Wrksht As Worksheet Dim ws As Worksheet For Each ws In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets ws.Columns("E:E").EntireColumn.Delete 'ws.Range("A1:E1").Merge 'ws.Range("A1").ClearContents ws.Rows("1:1").EntireRow.Delete ws.Columns("A:E").AutoFit ws.Rows("3:3").HorizontalAlignment = xlCenter ws.Rows("3:3").VerticalAlignment = xlCenter ws.Columns("A:Z").HorizontalAlignment = xlCenter ws.Columns("A:Z").VerticalAlignment = xlCenter 'ws.Columns("E:Z").HorizontalAlignment = xlCenter 'ws.Columns("E:Z").VerticalAlignment = xlCenter ws.Columns.Rows.Font.Name = "Calibri" Next ws Sheets(1).Select For i = 1 To Sheets.Count Sheets(i).Activate Range("A3").Select Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlDown)).Select Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlToRight)).Select If ActiveSheet.ListObjects.Count < 1 Then ActiveSheet.ListObjects.Add.Name = ActiveSheet.Name End If Next i 'Create a new instance of Word Set WrdApp = New Word.Application WrdApp.Visible = True WrdApp.Activate 'Point to Existing Document in the application WrdApp.Documents.Add "C:\Kiran\Projects\2021\Inventory.dotx" 'Loop through all the Worksheets in the Active Workbook For Each Wrksht In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets Wrksht.Activate 'Loop through the list objects on the Active sheet For Each ExclisObj In Wrksht.ListObjects 'Copy the list object ExclisObj.Range.Copy 'Paste list Object into the Word Document With WrdApp.Selection.GoTo(what:=-1, Name = "ACHEN380D1") .PasteExcelTable LinkedtoExcel:=True, WordFormatting:=False, RTF:=False End With 'Clear my Clipboard Application.CutCopyMode = False Next Next End Sub

[@kjalihal]

If I use nested for loop then all the tables will be pasted under the same bookmark and then the bookmark will be incremented. I need to increment the bookmark as well as the excel sheet at the same time so that at every new bookmark every new table is pasted. I hope I am clear and not confusing.

[@WiseOwlTutorials]

@@kjalihal Hi Kiran, that makes sense. What I would do is give each of your tables in Excel a name. You can do this by clicking into the table and in the Table Design tab of the ribbon enter a value for the Table Name property. In Word, make the name of the bookmark equal to the name of the table you want to paste into it. You can then edit your With statement to read like this: With WrdApp.Selection.GoTo(what:=-1, Name:=ExclisObj.Name) I hope that helps!

[@kjalihal]

@@WiseOwlTutorials Thanks a lot !!!! It worked :)

[@sakhilengwenya594]

I’m here in 2025. Thank you 🙏

[@kristiandadhley977]

Great Vid! Would a similar thing be done if you wanted to populate a word report with data from excel. i.e. you had a standard MS word report that said something like. "Since the last report X people have signed up with the company and Y people have retired" where you want to populate the X and Y with values from an excel sheet?

[@agustincmb5404]

Is there a way to paste the data in a string format rather than having a table in the word doc?

[@WiseOwlTutorials]

You can try PasteSpecial (see the example at the bottom) docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/word.selection.pastespecial

[@naelsajim7383]

Thank you for this great video Andrew. i wanted to ask if it is possible to create a word doc automatically after entering every individual data so that it belongs to that certain individual ,and it will contain for example certain cells only like (name and age for example) an individual word file to every person in excel table in order to edit it later and enter detailed info as word docs

[@naelsajim7383]

***** thank you for the reply Andrew ,i want to ask you about an exe application that opens the same word template and adds only certain data directly from that template after editing (for example name and date ) to an excel sheet for easy searching.i have that exe application and want to show it to you,in order to understand how it works ,if that is ok please tell how to contact

[@colerees3965]

I was having some difficulties using the Format function for the date -- (compile error: Wrong number of args...). I solved by writing in: VBA.Format(arguments). There is another function in the intellisense called: format (with a lowercase f). Do you have any idea where this function comes from?

[@shaunmaher278]

Hello, thanks very much for the video. How can you save the Word document with a unique name, thats perhaps references a cell in the Excel Worksheet?

[@abdullahquhtani4247]

One more question plz, what if I want to save the document as PDF instead of .doc or .docx? Thank you.

[@mickcarroll1]

Hi Andrew, yours are the best delivered tutorials on KZbin bar none. I'm less than a newbie in VBA and may have missed this but is there a way of personalising each email - e.g. "Hi ,"? while still adding attachments?