assigning variable text of a word doc

[tylerjones]

I haven't worked much with VBA, mainly just VB and COM and I need to assign the text in a word doc to a variable. Does anyone know how I can do it without saving the doc as a text file, opening it with the file system object and readall the text into a variable. That seems like more work than needs to be done for this but it's the only way I've figured out to do this. Thanks.

 

[JustinEzequiel]

you could try something like...

Dim oDoc As Object
Dim sText As String

Set oDoc = GetObject("C:\My Documents\test.doc", "Word.Document")

sText = oDoc.Range.Text

Set oDoc = Nothing

MsgBox sText