Have you ever needed to fill-in or update the form fields of a Word Document from say Access, Excel, … Below is a simple example of how you can do this. In it I demonstrate how to populate a textbox, as well as show you how you can check/uncheck a checkbox.
'--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ' Procedure : UpdateDoc ' Author : CARDA Consultants Inc. ' Website : http://www.cardaconsultants.com ' Purpose : Update/Fill-in a Word document's form fields ' Copyright : The following may be altered and reused as you wish so long as the ' copyright notice is left unchanged (including Author, Website and ' Copyright). It may not be sold/resold or reposted on other sites (links ' back to this site are allowed). ' ' Revision History: ' Rev Date(yyyy/mm/dd) Description ' ************************************************************************************** ' 1 2010-Sep-17 Initial Release '--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub UpdateDoc() 'Requires a reference to the Word object library Dim oApp As Object 'Word.Application Dim oDoc As Object 'Word.Document Dim sDocName As String On Error Resume Next Set oApp = GetObject(, "Word.Application") 'See if word is already running If Err.Number <> 0 Then 'Word isn't running so start it Set oApp = CreateObject("Word.Application") End If On Error GoTo Error_Handler_Exit sDocName = "YourWordDocToOpenFullPathAndExtension" Set oDoc = oApp.Documents.Open(sDocName) oApp.Visible = True oDoc.FormFields("TextboxName").Result = "NewValue" 'Textbox oDoc.FormFields("CheckboxName").CheckBox.Value = True 'Checkbox Error_Handler_Exit: On Error Resume Next oDoc.Close True oApp.Quit Set oDoc = Nothing Set oApp = Nothing Exit Sub Error_Handler: If Err.Number = 5174 Then MsgBox "The specified file '" & sDocName & "' could not be found.", _ vbCritical Else MsgBox "The following error has occured." & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & _ "Error Number: " & Err.Number & vbCrLf & _ "Error Source: UpdateDoc" & vbCrLf & _ "Error Description: " & Err.Description, _ vbCritical, "An Error has Occured!" End If Resume Error_Handler_Exit End Sub |


