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Quickest method (from users perspective) of populating a table
I have a table with one hundred rows.
What is the quickest way to populate all one hundred rows? -- ashwin |
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Quickest method (from user's perspective) of populating a table
Populate them with what?
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org ashwin wrote: I have a table with one hundred rows. What is the quickest way to populate all one hundred rows? |
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Quickest method (from user's perspective) of populating a table
Populated with what?
If you just want to put some text in each cell then you could run a macro. This may not be the "quickest" but its pretty fast and it would number each table cell with a sequential number: Sub ScratchmMacro() Dim oCell As Cell Dim i As Long Set oCell = Selection.Tables(1).Cell(1, 1) i = 0 Do i = i + 1 oCell.Range.Text = i & "." Set oCell = oCell.Next Loop Until oCell Is Nothing End Sub -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. "ashwin" wrote in message ... I have a table with one hundred rows. What is the quickest way to populate all one hundred rows? -- ashwin |
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-- ashwin "Graham Mayor" wrote: Populate them with what? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org ashwin wrote: I have a table with one hundred rows. What is the quickest way to populate all one hundred rows? |
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Quickest method (from user's perspective) of populating a tabl
I'd like to populate the rows programmatically with text.
-- ashwin "Graham Mayor" wrote: Populate them with what? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org ashwin wrote: I have a table with one hundred rows. What is the quickest way to populate all one hundred rows? |
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Quickest method (from user's perspective) of populating a tabl
I understand that I can update the contents of each cell individually, but is
there something faster like Pasting or setting a range to an array? -- ashwin "Greg Maxey" wrote: Populated with what? If you just want to put some text in each cell then you could run a macro. This may not be the "quickest" but its pretty fast and it would number each table cell with a sequential number: Sub ScratchmMacro() Dim oCell As Cell Dim i As Long Set oCell = Selection.Tables(1).Cell(1, 1) i = 0 Do i = i + 1 oCell.Range.Text = i & "." Set oCell = oCell.Next Loop Until oCell Is Nothing End Sub -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. "ashwin" wrote in message ... I have a table with one hundred rows. What is the quickest way to populate all one hundred rows? -- ashwin |
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Quickest method (from user's perspective) of populating a tabl
Brilliant! It's like drawing teeth
What sort of text? Random text? Specific text? Text from a data file? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org ashwin wrote: I'd like to populate the rows programmatically with text. Populate them with what? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org ashwin wrote: I have a table with one hundred rows. What is the quickest way to populate all one hundred rows? |
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Quickest method (from user's perspective) of populating a tabl
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. :-) 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 understand that I can update the contents of each cell individually, but is there something faster like Pasting or setting a range to an array? |
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Quickest method (from user's perspective) of populating a tabl
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 Im 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. :-) 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 understand that I can update the contents of each cell individually, but is there something faster like Pasting or setting a range to an array? |
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Quickest method (from user's perspective) of populating a tabl
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
The text in each cell will be different.
Im currently updating each cell individually, but I havent tried Gregs ..Next property/method €“I imagine that has to be faster than indexing into the table using the Cell object. What Im really trying to find out is: Does anyone know THE FASTEST METHOD (from the users perspective) of accomplishing this? I thought pasting would be even faster than snaking through each cell, but it doesnt 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 users 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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