VBA Execute Macros for Word Document in Excel

Question

I have an excel calculation which contains information for a Word Document. What I want is to open the word document and save it as an pdf automatically - with a macro in Excel.

I already tried the following:

Set WordApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
With WordApp.Application
   .Visible = True
   .Documents.Open (LocationTemplate)
        .ExportAsFixedFormat OutputFileName:= _
        OfferPath, _
        ExportFormat:=wdExportFormatPDF, OpenAfterExport:=True, OptimizeFor:= _
        wdExportOptimizeForPrint, Range:=wdExportAllDocument, From:=1, To:=1, _
        Item:=wdExportDocumentContent, IncludeDocProps:=True, KeepIRM:=True, _
        CreateBookmarks:=wdExportCreateNoBookmarks, DocStructureTags:=True, _
        BitmapMissingFonts:=True, UseISO19005_1:=False
        ChangeFileOpenDirectory _
        DestinationPath
    .Quit

End With

What is the mistake? Looking forward to your support.

Answer 1

it seems that youre not selecting the open document

try something like this

Set WordApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
With WordApp.Application
  .Visible = True
  .Documents.Open (LocationTemplate)

  .Activate

  ActiveDocument.ExportAsFixedFormat 
    .ExportAsFixedFormat OutputFileName:= _
    OfferPath, _
    ExportFormat:=wdExportFormatPDF, OpenAfterExport:=True, OptimizeFor:= _
    wdExportOptimizeForPrint, Range:=wdExportAllDocument, From:=1, To:=1, _
    Item:=wdExportDocumentContent, IncludeDocProps:=True, KeepIRM:=True, _
    CreateBookmarks:=wdExportCreateNoBookmarks, DocStructureTags:=True, _
    BitmapMissingFonts:=True, UseISO19005_1:=False
    ChangeFileOpenDirectory _
    DestinationPath
  .Quit

End With

Good Luck

Answer 2

Runtime Error 438: "Object doesn't support this property or method"

Your problem stems from the fact that in the With block you are referring to WordApp.Application (which in itself is redundant and could be reduced to WordApp as it already represents a Word.Application object) and thus with the line .ExportAsFixedFormat [...] you are essentially doing:

Word.Application.ExportAsFixedFormat

This method doesn't exist on the Application object. (Now read the error description again - notice anything?)

If you instead of late-binding the Word.Application object via CreateObject() set a reference to the Word Object Model (Menu: Extras - References) you can do things like:

Dim wordApp As Word.Application
Set wordApp = New Word.Application
With wordApp.Documents.Open LocationTemplate
    .ExportAsFixedFormat [...]
End With

Which provides you with the (much needed) intellisense, as well as compile-time errors instead of runtime errors when you try to call wrong methods.

Answer 3

The mistake is that you execute .ExportAsFixedFormat on the Word.Application object. This method is valid for a Word document . Your code should be more like what follows.

Note that I've added the variable declarations for WordApp and WordDoc and also code to release these objects.

Dim WordApp as Object
Dim WordDoc as Object
Set WordApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
With WordApp.Application
   .Visible = True
   Set WordDoc = .Documents.Open (LocationTemplate)
   WordDoc.ExportAsFixedFormat OutputFileName:= _
        OfferPath, _
        ExportFormat:=wdExportFormatPDF, OpenAfterExport:=True, OptimizeFor:= _
        wdExportOptimizeForPrint, Range:=wdExportAllDocument, From:=1, To:=1, _
        Item:=wdExportDocumentContent, IncludeDocProps:=True, KeepIRM:=True, _
        CreateBookmarks:=wdExportCreateNoBookmarks, DocStructureTags:=True, _
        BitmapMissingFonts:=True, UseISO19005_1:=False
    .Quit 0 'To not save changes to the document, just close it
    Set WordDoc = Nothing
End With
Set WordApp = Nothing