I am trying to have my macro make three tables in Word. It currently makes one big table and formats it correctly, but I can’t find how to force a page break at the desired times. I found a macro that was using vba in Word and they used .InsertBreak but this keeps causing an error when I run it.
Here is my code at present. It’s pieced together from a lot of sources with bits of my own chucked in there;
Dim wdApp As New Word.Application
Dim wdDoc As Word.Document
Dim wdTbl As Word.Table
Dim xlSht As Worksheet
Dim lRow As Integer
Dim lCol As Integer
Dim r As Integer
Dim c As Integer
Dim Blanks As Integer
Dim First As Integer
Dim Second As Integer
lRow = Sheets("Feedback Sheets").Range("A1000").End(xlUp).Row - 2
Blanks = 0
i = 1
Do While i <= lRow
Set rRng = Worksheets("Feedback Sheets").Range("A" & i)
If IsEmpty(rRng.Value) Then
Blanks = Blanks + 1
If Blanks = 1 Then First = i
If Blanks = 2 Then Second = i
End If
i = i + 1
Loop
'Now I know where end of each table is
Set xlSht = ActiveSheet: lCol = 5
With wdApp
.Visible = True
Set wdDoc = .Documents.Add
With wdDoc
Set wdTbl = .Tables.Add(Range:=.Range, NumRows:=2, NumColumns:=lCol)
With wdTbl
.Rows(1).Range.Font.Bold = True
.Rows(1).HeadingFormat = True
.Cell(1, 1).Range.Text = "Header 1"
If lCol > 1 Then .Cell(1, 2).Range.Text = "Header 2"
If lCol > 2 Then .Cell(1, 3).Range.Text = "Header 3"
End With
With xlSht
For r = 1 To lRow
If (r + 1) > wdTbl.Rows.Count Then wdTbl.Rows.Add
If r = First Then wdDoc.InsertBreak
If r = Second Then wdDoc.InsertBreak
For c = 1 To lCol
wdTbl.Cell(r + 1, c).Range.Text = xlSht.Cells(r, c).Text
Next c
Next r
End With
End With
End With
Set myTable = ActiveDocument.Tables(1)
With myTable.Borders
.InsideLineStyle = wdLineStyleSingle
.OutsideLineStyle = wdLineStyleDouble
End With
Set wdTbl = Nothing: Set wdDoc = Nothing: Set wdApp = Nothing: Set xlSht = Nothing
When I run it I get runtime error ‘438’, object doesn’t support this property or method and the Debug highlights this line;
If r = First Then wdDoc.InsertBreak
which is why I think it’s the InsertBreak that is the issue.
Edit: I have now managed to get it to make three tables with page breaks after each table, but over three different documents (and probably in the most clunky way possible). When I remove the Set wdDoc = .Documents.Add
line from the second and third iterations of that block of code it just creates table 3. I feel like it might have the table selected after applying the formatting and then overwriting it with the next table, but setting Set myTable = Nothing
ruins everything.
Dim wdApp As New Word.Application
Dim wdDoc As Word.Document
Dim wdTbl1 As Word.Table
Dim wdTbl2 As Word.Table
Dim wdTbl3 As Word.Table
Dim xlSht As Worksheet
Dim lRow As Integer
Dim lCol As Integer
Dim r As Integer
Dim c As Integer
Dim Blanks As Integer
Dim First As Integer
Dim Second As Integer
lRow = Sheets("Feedback Sheets").Range("A1000").End(xlUp).Row - 2
Blanks = 0
i = 1
Do While i <= lRow
Set rRng = Worksheets("Feedback Sheets").Range("A" & i)
If IsEmpty(rRng.Value) Then
Blanks = Blanks + 1
If Blanks = 1 Then First = i
If Blanks = 2 Then Second = i
End If
i = i + 1
Loop
'Now I know where end of each table is
Set xlSht = ActiveSheet: lCol = 5
With wdApp
.Visible = True
Set wdDoc = .Documents.Add
With wdDoc
Set wdTbl1 = .Tables.Add(Range:=.Range, NumRows:=2, NumColumns:=lCol)
With wdTbl1
.Rows(1).Range.Font.Bold = True
.Rows(1).HeadingFormat = True
.Cell(1, 1).Range.Text = "Header 1"
If lCol > 1 Then .Cell(1, 2).Range.Text = "Header 2"
If lCol > 2 Then .Cell(1, 3).Range.Text = "Header 3"
End With
With xlSht
For r = 1 To First
If (r + 1) > wdTbl1.Rows.Count Then wdTbl1.Rows.Add
If r = First Then wdDoc.Characters.Last.InsertBreak Type:=wdPageBreak
For c = 1 To lCol
wdTbl1.Cell(r + 1, c).Range.Text = xlSht.Cells(r, c).Text
Next c
Next r
End With
End With
End With
Set myTable = ActiveDocument.Tables(1)
With myTable.Borders
.InsideLineStyle = wdLineStyleSingle
.OutsideLineStyle = wdLineStyleDouble
End With
With wdApp
.Visible = True
Set wdDoc = .Documents.Add
With wdDoc
Set wdTbl2 = .Tables.Add(Range:=.Range, NumRows:=2, NumColumns:=lCol)
With wdTbl2
.Rows(1).Range.Font.Bold = True
.Rows(1).HeadingFormat = True
.Cell(1, 1).Range.Text = "Header 1"
If lCol > 1 Then .Cell(1, 2).Range.Text = "Header 2"
If lCol > 2 Then .Cell(1, 3).Range.Text = "Header 3"
End With
With xlSht
For r = First To Second
If (r + 1) > wdTbl2.Rows.Count Then wdTbl2.Rows.Add
If r = Second Then wdDoc.Characters.Last.InsertBreak Type:=wdPageBreak
For c = 1 To lCol
wdTbl2.Cell(r + 1, c).Range.Text = xlSht.Cells(r, c).Text
Next c
Next r
End With
End With
End With
Set myTable = ActiveDocument.Tables(1)
With myTable.Borders
.InsideLineStyle = wdLineStyleSingle
.OutsideLineStyle = wdLineStyleDouble
End With
With wdApp
.Visible = True
Set wdDoc = .Documents.Add
With wdDoc
Set wdTbl3 = .Tables.Add(Range:=.Range, NumRows:=2, NumColumns:=lCol)
With wdTbl3
.Rows(1).Range.Font.Bold = True
.Rows(1).HeadingFormat = True
.Cell(1, 1).Range.Text = "Header 1"
If lCol > 1 Then .Cell(1, 2).Range.Text = "Header 2"
If lCol > 2 Then .Cell(1, 3).Range.Text = "Header 3"
End With
With xlSht
For r = Second To lRow
If (r + 1) > wdTbl3.Rows.Count Then wdTbl3.Rows.Add
If r = Second Then wdDoc.Characters.Last.InsertBreak Type:=wdPageBreak
For c = 1 To lCol
wdTbl3.Cell(r + 1, c).Range.Text = xlSht.Cells(r, c).Text
Next c
Next r
End With
End With
End With
Set myTable = ActiveDocument.Tables(1)
With myTable.Borders
.InsideLineStyle = wdLineStyleSingle
.OutsideLineStyle = wdLineStyleDouble
End With
Set wdTbl1 = Nothing: Set wdTbl2 = Nothing: Set wdTbl3 = Nothing: Set wdDoc = Nothing: Set wdApp = Nothing: Set xlSht = Nothing
Edit 2: This seems to have strayed too far from the original question so I’ll mark this one as done and ask a new one.
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wdDoc.InsertBreak
is invalid, as you would know if you’re using IntelliSense, because the document object does not have an InsertBreak
method.
InsertBreak
is a method of the Range
object. As you want to place the break after the table you should use:
wdDoc.Characters.Last.InsertBreak Type:=wdPageBreak
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