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Hi
I have an excel sheet that has some database and which will keep getting updated. I have another Word file that is based on the database of the excel sheet. The purpose of using word is that I will have content written for each of the database element from excel. I am wondering if i could link excel and word in such a way that Any update in excel will automatically make the update in word. I tried Inserting Excel as an object but that inserts the sheet as a whole. What i am looking to achieve is inserting cells in different places of the word document. Let me illustrate my situation Say my excel sheet is like ========= LIST ITEMS ========= List Item 1 List Item 2 List Item 3 And my word Document is ========= List Item 1 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 2 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 3 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Obviously, am gonna have lots of these List Items which is why I am trying to automate it. Is this possible? Or is it wishful thinking. Thanks for any suggestion. |
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Select and copy the cell in Excel. Switch to Word and use Edit
PasteSpecial, with the 'Paste Link' option checked. "heyz" wrote in message ... Hi I have an excel sheet that has some database and which will keep getting updated. I have another Word file that is based on the database of the excel sheet. The purpose of using word is that I will have content written for each of the database element from excel. I am wondering if i could link excel and word in such a way that Any update in excel will automatically make the update in word. I tried Inserting Excel as an object but that inserts the sheet as a whole. What i am looking to achieve is inserting cells in different places of the word document. Let me illustrate my situation Say my excel sheet is like ========= LIST ITEMS ========= List Item 1 List Item 2 List Item 3 And my word Document is ========= List Item 1 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 2 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 3 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Obviously, am gonna have lots of these List Items which is why I am trying to automate it. Is this possible? Or is it wishful thinking. Thanks for any suggestion. |
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Hey Jezebel
Thanks so much for that! It simplifies things a lot. However, I have managed to find myself in one more problem: I tested this method and found that if I add rows or columns in such a way to change the position of the original cell then the linked field in Word does not automatically catch that change (but linked cells in other sheets within excel seem to catch the position change and properly reflect it) Is there a way to get around that? And thanks again. heyz "Jezebel" wrote: Select and copy the cell in Excel. Switch to Word and use Edit PasteSpecial, with the 'Paste Link' option checked. "heyz" wrote in message ... Hi I have an excel sheet that has some database and which will keep getting updated. I have another Word file that is based on the database of the excel sheet. The purpose of using word is that I will have content written for each of the database element from excel. I am wondering if i could link excel and word in such a way that Any update in excel will automatically make the update in word. I tried Inserting Excel as an object but that inserts the sheet as a whole. What i am looking to achieve is inserting cells in different places of the word document. Let me illustrate my situation Say my excel sheet is like ========= LIST ITEMS ========= List Item 1 List Item 2 List Item 3 And my word Document is ========= List Item 1 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 2 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 3 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Obviously, am gonna have lots of these List Items which is why I am trying to automate it. Is this possible? Or is it wishful thinking. Thanks for any suggestion. |
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Press Alt-F9 to display field codes. You'll see the the link looks something
like this -- { LINK Excel.Sheet.8 "d:\\username\\Temp\\Book1.xls" "Sheet1!R3C3" \a \t } If you give the Excel cell a name, you can insert that name in place of the "Sheet1!R3C3" part. Then the link will reference the cell with that name, wherever it is. "heyz" wrote in message ... Hey Jezebel Thanks so much for that! It simplifies things a lot. However, I have managed to find myself in one more problem: I tested this method and found that if I add rows or columns in such a way to change the position of the original cell then the linked field in Word does not automatically catch that change (but linked cells in other sheets within excel seem to catch the position change and properly reflect it) Is there a way to get around that? And thanks again. heyz "Jezebel" wrote: Select and copy the cell in Excel. Switch to Word and use Edit PasteSpecial, with the 'Paste Link' option checked. "heyz" wrote in message ... Hi I have an excel sheet that has some database and which will keep getting updated. I have another Word file that is based on the database of the excel sheet. The purpose of using word is that I will have content written for each of the database element from excel. I am wondering if i could link excel and word in such a way that Any update in excel will automatically make the update in word. I tried Inserting Excel as an object but that inserts the sheet as a whole. What i am looking to achieve is inserting cells in different places of the word document. Let me illustrate my situation Say my excel sheet is like ========= LIST ITEMS ========= List Item 1 List Item 2 List Item 3 And my word Document is ========= List Item 1 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 2 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 3 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Obviously, am gonna have lots of these List Items which is why I am trying to automate it. Is this possible? Or is it wishful thinking. Thanks for any suggestion. |
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Hi jezebel
Thanks again. Yes that works. I have discovered today with ur help. Unfortunately I assess that to achieve what i had in mind I'm going to have to work on automating too many things. And tat might be more work than doing what I intend to do without all the automation. For example if i inserted a new list my word file wouldn't correspond to that change. The content under one list item would show up under a previous list item. In short more work developing all this. Thanks a lot though. I am sure i'l be using what i learnt someway or the other heyz "Jezebel" wrote: Press Alt-F9 to display field codes. You'll see the the link looks something like this -- { LINK Excel.Sheet.8 "d:\\username\\Temp\\Book1.xls" "Sheet1!R3C3" \a \t } If you give the Excel cell a name, you can insert that name in place of the "Sheet1!R3C3" part. Then the link will reference the cell with that name, wherever it is. "heyz" wrote in message ... Hey Jezebel Thanks so much for that! It simplifies things a lot. However, I have managed to find myself in one more problem: I tested this method and found that if I add rows or columns in such a way to change the position of the original cell then the linked field in Word does not automatically catch that change (but linked cells in other sheets within excel seem to catch the position change and properly reflect it) Is there a way to get around that? And thanks again. heyz "Jezebel" wrote: Select and copy the cell in Excel. Switch to Word and use Edit PasteSpecial, with the 'Paste Link' option checked. "heyz" wrote in message ... Hi I have an excel sheet that has some database and which will keep getting updated. I have another Word file that is based on the database of the excel sheet. The purpose of using word is that I will have content written for each of the database element from excel. I am wondering if i could link excel and word in such a way that Any update in excel will automatically make the update in word. I tried Inserting Excel as an object but that inserts the sheet as a whole. What i am looking to achieve is inserting cells in different places of the word document. Let me illustrate my situation Say my excel sheet is like ========= LIST ITEMS ========= List Item 1 List Item 2 List Item 3 And my word Document is ========= List Item 1 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 2 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 3 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Obviously, am gonna have lots of these List Items which is why I am trying to automate it. Is this possible? Or is it wishful thinking. Thanks for any suggestion. |
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What if you drive all of this from Excel? I'm assuming that one of daunting
parts is automating all the "Blah Blah" stuff? I can name an entire range in Excel and paste a link into a Word doc - any changes to the range, including inserting and deleting rows are reflected in the link in Word. If you run all of this as List Item 1 Blah Blah List Item 2 Blah Blah etc. in Excel, you can link that column into Word and any adjustments are reflected in the doc. You could also do something like putting your List Item in Column A (in Excel) and your Blah Blah in Column B, then put a check mark in Column C for every one you want to include, then run a macro in Excel that would generate a Word doc based on whatever template, letterhead, etc you desire with only the checked items. Although that sounds a lot like trying to imitate an Access report. Ed "heyz" wrote in message ... Hi jezebel Thanks again. Yes that works. I have discovered today with ur help. Unfortunately I assess that to achieve what i had in mind I'm going to have to work on automating too many things. And tat might be more work than doing what I intend to do without all the automation. For example if i inserted a new list my word file wouldn't correspond to that change. The content under one list item would show up under a previous list item. In short more work developing all this. Thanks a lot though. I am sure i'l be using what i learnt someway or the other heyz "Jezebel" wrote: Press Alt-F9 to display field codes. You'll see the the link looks something like this -- { LINK Excel.Sheet.8 "d:\\username\\Temp\\Book1.xls" "Sheet1!R3C3" \a t } If you give the Excel cell a name, you can insert that name in place of the "Sheet1!R3C3" part. Then the link will reference the cell with that name, wherever it is. "heyz" wrote in message ... Hey Jezebel Thanks so much for that! It simplifies things a lot. However, I have managed to find myself in one more problem: I tested this method and found that if I add rows or columns in such a way to change the position of the original cell then the linked field in Word does not automatically catch that change (but linked cells in other sheets within excel seem to catch the position change and properly reflect it) Is there a way to get around that? And thanks again. heyz "Jezebel" wrote: Select and copy the cell in Excel. Switch to Word and use Edit PasteSpecial, with the 'Paste Link' option checked. "heyz" wrote in message ... Hi I have an excel sheet that has some database and which will keep getting updated. I have another Word file that is based on the database of the excel sheet. The purpose of using word is that I will have content written for each of the database element from excel. I am wondering if i could link excel and word in such a way that Any update in excel will automatically make the update in word. I tried Inserting Excel as an object but that inserts the sheet as a whole. What i am looking to achieve is inserting cells in different places of the word document. Let me illustrate my situation Say my excel sheet is like ========= LIST ITEMS ========= List Item 1 List Item 2 List Item 3 And my word Document is ========= List Item 1 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 2 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 3 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Obviously, am gonna have lots of these List Items which is why I am trying to automate it. Is this possible? Or is it wishful thinking. Thanks for any suggestion. |
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Hi Ed.
Firstly thanks for chiping in. Your suggestiong would work but then I want to introduce the text, the blah blah in word. This is not just a little bit of blah blah but different kinds of blah blahs n lots of it, and Word will be best suited for all that word processing. So i want to source headings (List Items) from Excel (whcih could change, which might get added) from excel but work on the content in word. - I tried pasting the Excel range into Word and then inserted text between one List item and another but if i update the field the text I insert is lost. - I have tried pasting cells one by one as separate fields, and inserting text inbetween. This is pointless as it does not automate anything for me. Actually am trying to manage content for a new website that is being developed, whcih will have lots of pages, and hierarchy of pages, and new pages might get added during development. So say the list items refer to pages and the pages are About us Product AA Product AB Product AC Locations (at this point we have some 84 pages, and we just started) And i paste each of these List Items from Excel as fields into word and inserted all the content between these fields it does not help in a case where A new page PRODUCT XY gets added between Product AA and ProductAB. The content written under Product AB would now show up under PRODUCT XY! I thought about all this and I wondered if I would end up working more in developing a system than actually doing it without the automation. If there is actually an answer to this and am just ignorant then that is so welcome. I am just thrilled by what all this integration of applications can do. Thanks guys. heyz "Ed" wrote: What if you drive all of this from Excel? I'm assuming that one of daunting parts is automating all the "Blah Blah" stuff? I can name an entire range in Excel and paste a link into a Word doc - any changes to the range, including inserting and deleting rows are reflected in the link in Word. If you run all of this as List Item 1 Blah Blah List Item 2 Blah Blah etc. in Excel, you can link that column into Word and any adjustments are reflected in the doc. You could also do something like putting your List Item in Column A (in Excel) and your Blah Blah in Column B, then put a check mark in Column C for every one you want to include, then run a macro in Excel that would generate a Word doc based on whatever template, letterhead, etc you desire with only the checked items. Although that sounds a lot like trying to imitate an Access report. Ed "heyz" wrote in message ... Hi jezebel Thanks again. Yes that works. I have discovered today with ur help. Unfortunately I assess that to achieve what i had in mind I'm going to have to work on automating too many things. And tat might be more work than doing what I intend to do without all the automation. For example if i inserted a new list my word file wouldn't correspond to that change. The content under one list item would show up under a previous list item. In short more work developing all this. Thanks a lot though. I am sure i'l be using what i learnt someway or the other heyz "Jezebel" wrote: Press Alt-F9 to display field codes. You'll see the the link looks something like this -- { LINK Excel.Sheet.8 "d:\\username\\Temp\\Book1.xls" "Sheet1!R3C3" \a t } If you give the Excel cell a name, you can insert that name in place of the "Sheet1!R3C3" part. Then the link will reference the cell with that name, wherever it is. "heyz" wrote in message ... Hey Jezebel Thanks so much for that! It simplifies things a lot. However, I have managed to find myself in one more problem: I tested this method and found that if I add rows or columns in such a way to change the position of the original cell then the linked field in Word does not automatically catch that change (but linked cells in other sheets within excel seem to catch the position change and properly reflect it) Is there a way to get around that? And thanks again. heyz "Jezebel" wrote: Select and copy the cell in Excel. Switch to Word and use Edit PasteSpecial, with the 'Paste Link' option checked. "heyz" wrote in message ... Hi I have an excel sheet that has some database and which will keep getting updated. I have another Word file that is based on the database of the excel sheet. The purpose of using word is that I will have content written for each of the database element from excel. I am wondering if i could link excel and word in such a way that Any update in excel will automatically make the update in word. I tried Inserting Excel as an object but that inserts the sheet as a whole. What i am looking to achieve is inserting cells in different places of the word document. Let me illustrate my situation Say my excel sheet is like ========= LIST ITEMS ========= List Item 1 List Item 2 List Item 3 And my word Document is ========= List Item 1 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 2 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 3 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Obviously, am gonna have lots of these List Items which is why I am trying to automate it. Is this possible? Or is it wishful thinking. Thanks for any suggestion. |
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Thank you for putting the Alt-F9 in this post. Out of the blue my links
started displaying field codes. Never having seen this before I was stuck. Even though this post doesn't relate to my problem it helped me. Thanks! Pamala "Jezebel" wrote: Press Alt-F9 to display field codes. You'll see the the link looks something like this -- { LINK Excel.Sheet.8 "d:\\username\\Temp\\Book1.xls" "Sheet1!R3C3" \a \t } If you give the Excel cell a name, you can insert that name in place of the "Sheet1!R3C3" part. Then the link will reference the cell with that name, wherever it is. "heyz" wrote in message ... Hey Jezebel Thanks so much for that! It simplifies things a lot. However, I have managed to find myself in one more problem: I tested this method and found that if I add rows or columns in such a way to change the position of the original cell then the linked field in Word does not automatically catch that change (but linked cells in other sheets within excel seem to catch the position change and properly reflect it) Is there a way to get around that? And thanks again. heyz "Jezebel" wrote: Select and copy the cell in Excel. Switch to Word and use Edit PasteSpecial, with the 'Paste Link' option checked. "heyz" wrote in message ... Hi I have an excel sheet that has some database and which will keep getting updated. I have another Word file that is based on the database of the excel sheet. The purpose of using word is that I will have content written for each of the database element from excel. I am wondering if i could link excel and word in such a way that Any update in excel will automatically make the update in word. I tried Inserting Excel as an object but that inserts the sheet as a whole. What i am looking to achieve is inserting cells in different places of the word document. Let me illustrate my situation Say my excel sheet is like ========= LIST ITEMS ========= List Item 1 List Item 2 List Item 3 And my word Document is ========= List Item 1 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 2 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 3 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Obviously, am gonna have lots of these List Items which is why I am trying to automate it. Is this possible? Or is it wishful thinking. Thanks for any suggestion. |
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Linking Text from Excel to Word
Your idea below about running a macro to generate a word doc might actually
be what I am looking for. How would I do this. I need to generate a word doc based of off which headings I choose. "Ed" wrote: What if you drive all of this from Excel? I'm assuming that one of daunting parts is automating all the "Blah Blah" stuff? I can name an entire range in Excel and paste a link into a Word doc - any changes to the range, including inserting and deleting rows are reflected in the link in Word. If you run all of this as List Item 1 Blah Blah List Item 2 Blah Blah etc. in Excel, you can link that column into Word and any adjustments are reflected in the doc. You could also do something like putting your List Item in Column A (in Excel) and your Blah Blah in Column B, then put a check mark in Column C for every one you want to include, then run a macro in Excel that would generate a Word doc based on whatever template, letterhead, etc you desire with only the checked items. Although that sounds a lot like trying to imitate an Access report. Ed "heyz" wrote in message ... Hi jezebel Thanks again. Yes that works. I have discovered today with ur help. Unfortunately I assess that to achieve what i had in mind I'm going to have to work on automating too many things. And tat might be more work than doing what I intend to do without all the automation. For example if i inserted a new list my word file wouldn't correspond to that change. The content under one list item would show up under a previous list item. In short more work developing all this. Thanks a lot though. I am sure i'l be using what i learnt someway or the other heyz "Jezebel" wrote: Press Alt-F9 to display field codes. You'll see the the link looks something like this -- { LINK Excel.Sheet.8 "d:\\username\\Temp\\Book1.xls" "Sheet1!R3C3" \a t } If you give the Excel cell a name, you can insert that name in place of the "Sheet1!R3C3" part. Then the link will reference the cell with that name, wherever it is. "heyz" wrote in message ... Hey Jezebel Thanks so much for that! It simplifies things a lot. However, I have managed to find myself in one more problem: I tested this method and found that if I add rows or columns in such a way to change the position of the original cell then the linked field in Word does not automatically catch that change (but linked cells in other sheets within excel seem to catch the position change and properly reflect it) Is there a way to get around that? And thanks again. heyz "Jezebel" wrote: Select and copy the cell in Excel. Switch to Word and use Edit PasteSpecial, with the 'Paste Link' option checked. "heyz" wrote in message ... Hi I have an excel sheet that has some database and which will keep getting updated. I have another Word file that is based on the database of the excel sheet. The purpose of using word is that I will have content written for each of the database element from excel. I am wondering if i could link excel and word in such a way that Any update in excel will automatically make the update in word. I tried Inserting Excel as an object but that inserts the sheet as a whole. What i am looking to achieve is inserting cells in different places of the word document. Let me illustrate my situation Say my excel sheet is like ========= LIST ITEMS ========= List Item 1 List Item 2 List Item 3 And my word Document is ========= List Item 1 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 2 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 3 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Obviously, am gonna have lots of these List Items which is why I am trying to automate it. Is this possible? Or is it wishful thinking. Thanks for any suggestion. |
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Linking Text from Excel to Word
I am thinking that this thread was started several years ago. It might be
best if you started a new thread and explained in it exactly what it is that you want to do. Where are the headings that you might choose? With what is each individual heading associated? -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Kesbutler" wrote in message ... Your idea below about running a macro to generate a word doc might actually be what I am looking for. How would I do this. I need to generate a word doc based of off which headings I choose. "Ed" wrote: What if you drive all of this from Excel? I'm assuming that one of daunting parts is automating all the "Blah Blah" stuff? I can name an entire range in Excel and paste a link into a Word doc - any changes to the range, including inserting and deleting rows are reflected in the link in Word. If you run all of this as List Item 1 Blah Blah List Item 2 Blah Blah etc. in Excel, you can link that column into Word and any adjustments are reflected in the doc. You could also do something like putting your List Item in Column A (in Excel) and your Blah Blah in Column B, then put a check mark in Column C for every one you want to include, then run a macro in Excel that would generate a Word doc based on whatever template, letterhead, etc you desire with only the checked items. Although that sounds a lot like trying to imitate an Access report. Ed "heyz" wrote in message ... Hi jezebel Thanks again. Yes that works. I have discovered today with ur help. Unfortunately I assess that to achieve what i had in mind I'm going to have to work on automating too many things. And tat might be more work than doing what I intend to do without all the automation. For example if i inserted a new list my word file wouldn't correspond to that change. The content under one list item would show up under a previous list item. In short more work developing all this. Thanks a lot though. I am sure i'l be using what i learnt someway or the other heyz "Jezebel" wrote: Press Alt-F9 to display field codes. You'll see the the link looks something like this -- { LINK Excel.Sheet.8 "d:\\username\\Temp\\Book1.xls" "Sheet1!R3C3" \a t } If you give the Excel cell a name, you can insert that name in place of the "Sheet1!R3C3" part. Then the link will reference the cell with that name, wherever it is. "heyz" wrote in message ... Hey Jezebel Thanks so much for that! It simplifies things a lot. However, I have managed to find myself in one more problem: I tested this method and found that if I add rows or columns in such a way to change the position of the original cell then the linked field in Word does not automatically catch that change (but linked cells in other sheets within excel seem to catch the position change and properly reflect it) Is there a way to get around that? And thanks again. heyz "Jezebel" wrote: Select and copy the cell in Excel. Switch to Word and use Edit PasteSpecial, with the 'Paste Link' option checked. "heyz" wrote in message ... Hi I have an excel sheet that has some database and which will keep getting updated. I have another Word file that is based on the database of the excel sheet. The purpose of using word is that I will have content written for each of the database element from excel. I am wondering if i could link excel and word in such a way that Any update in excel will automatically make the update in word. I tried Inserting Excel as an object but that inserts the sheet as a whole. What i am looking to achieve is inserting cells in different places of the word document. Let me illustrate my situation Say my excel sheet is like ========= LIST ITEMS ========= List Item 1 List Item 2 List Item 3 And my word Document is ========= List Item 1 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 2 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ========= List Item 3 ========= Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Obviously, am gonna have lots of these List Items which is why I am trying to automate it. Is this possible? Or is it wishful thinking. Thanks for any suggestion. |
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