Merge two word document using vb6.0

[raja_mohamed_05]

Hello ,
I have 2 word documents. One document is the main document which has tags within it for eg ~1, ~2 ,~3 etc at different positions in the document. The Second document also has the same tags followed by text matter. This text matter of the second document should replace the corressponding tags in the first document ie the text in the second docuement should be merged into the first document at the specific positions. Is it possible to do so through vb code ?
if possible plz send the source code to me msr_20004@rediffmail.com

[GremlinSA]

The purpose of this forum is to assit you with your code errors and problems.. Not to do your Codework... Also it is not likely that anyone will E_mail the source code to you, It would be posted here for others to See and comment on..

That asside .. Two ways to do this..
1) Have VB open the Documents in word and use a search and replace code segment to locate your tags... (Shorter code but a bit Slower)

2) save the doc's in RTF format and have VB open them and sequentialy read the doc and do a replace there. (Faster code but longer Coding).

Start your Project. if you have problems Post them here and we will help you...

[JonnyPoet]

Hi !

Just a hint which maybe makes work a bit less: An easy way to get most of the code done is: Use the macro function of word. then do by hand what you want to get. when finished stop macro and in most cases you get a lot of the code you need. You then only have to adapt it with the search statements as pointed out by Gremlin because macro will not do search because you are selecting the items which need to be changed by hand, so you will find some sort of 'select' statements there.


Jonny Poet

[GremlinSA]

Just a hint which maybe makes work a bit less: An easy way to get most of the code done is: Use the macro function of word. then do by hand what you want to get. when finished stop macro and in most cases you get a lot of the code you need.

Very good tip....

Recording macros is a easy way to get code.. But i find that sometimes the code written by the macro recorder is veeeeerrrrrrrrryyyyyyy long. compared to my writen code.

But it helps a lot... Gives you all the exact command layouts required....

Gremmy..

[JonnyPoet]

the macro recorder is veeeeerrrrrrrrryyyyyyy long. compared to my writen code. But it helps a lot... Gives you all the exact command layouts required....
Gremmy..

Yea thats TRUE, but with a bit experience you will easily be able to only use what you are need ing of all that stuff MS creates within macros and especially for a 'beginner' you get most of the commands as they are used to get your product. So you get a 'look into' the mysteries of WORD, EXCELL...
Good Luck

Jonny Poet

[elizas]

Lets say we have a word template file and we need to populate the template for "n" number of records and display a single large word document , instead of "n" separate documents.

So after creating the separate documents we need to merge them and create a single document with multiple pages.





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