Insert HTML at word Bookmark

[guitardave78]

Is it possible to insert html formatted text into a bookmark using vba?

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[JA3395]

I'd have thought yes definitely if you use XML.

 

[guitardave78]

I tried insertXML, but that put weird pink tags around the text!!

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[PWise]

try

Dim woobj As Word.Application
Set woobj = CreateObject("Word.Application")
With woobj
.Visible = True
.Documents.Open ("filename")
.Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="bookmarkname"
.ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=.Selection.Range, Address:="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=707",[/URL] TextToDisplay:="This tektip page"
End With

 

[guitardave78]

Not quite what I am after.
I want to put say <b><i>Hello</i></b> into the bookmark to give me formatted text.

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[PWise]

add this

 .Selection.MoveLeft Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1, Extend:=wdExtend
    .Selection.Font.Italic = wdToggle
    .Selection.Font.Bold = wdToggle

 

[guitardave78]

Again can't, well not easily.
The whole picture is this is being generated on a server using a .net dll.

The client passes several html formatted strings to the dll, which are then put into the bookmarks.

I was trying originally to see if word had any special formating escape codes I could use to replace out the html.

I may have to pull the document in as html and then play with it, but not ideal.

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[fumei]

If they were going to be all the same format you could easily do it using a Style. Simply insert the text at the bookmark with that Style (Character style).

However, I doubt if that is the case. What you are asking is if Word can GET format information from passed in text. Yes it can, at least from the clipboard. For example, assuming a bookmark named "here":

ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("here").Range _
   .PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteHTML

will dump the clipboard contents into the bookmark range, with the original HTML formatting.

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[guitardave78]

mm Getting there, but I need it to work from html code so <strong>hello</strong>

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[fumei]

wdPasteHTML "works from HTML code"? Are you trying to say it is not working? Are you saying that <b><i>Hello</i></b> works, but <strong>hello</strong> does not?

If so....it would help if you actually said so. Please try to be clear and concise.

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[guitardave78]

Sorry I am saying it does not work at all.
If you try to paste <strong>hello</strong> or <b><i>Hello</i></b> that is exactly what you see in the word document.

I have done some more research and it appears there are some conversion steps needed including utf8 encoding.

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[fumei]

But are you passing it in as a string or, as I mentioned, from the clipboard? The clipboard should not have HTML tags as text.

It may help if you actually posted some code.

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[guitardave78]

The html code is passed to the application as a string yes.
So the clipboard has html tags in it.

I have seen that it is possible to do by encoding in a particular way before it enters the clipboard and attaching certain headers, but not seen a definitive way lol.

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[fumei]

Huh??????

The html code is passed to the application as a string yes.
So the clipboard has html tags in it.

These are not connected.

If it is passed as a string, that MEANS it is passed as a variable (a string variable) OR it is passed as a string literal. In either case...there is no formatting.

So the clipboard has html tags in it. There is no "so".

A variable passed as a string is one thing (no format), the Clipboard contents (which can be many things including formatting; it could even be a graphic) are something else.

As you are not posting code I don't see I can offer much else as suggestions. I asked directly:

"But are you passing it in as a string or, as I mentioned, from the clipboard? "

You are answering (sort of): both.

Here is what you posted again:

The html code is passed to the application as a string yes.
So the clipboard has html tags in it.

If the first sentence is true, then you are passing <b><i>Hello</i></b> as literally that....text. It is NO meaning. As far as Word is concerned "<" is as meaningful as "o".

Passing a string is NOT the same as inserting the contents of the Clipboard.

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[guitardave78]

It is a string.

There is no code to show, all i have is str="<b><i>Hello</i></b>"

I am merely trying to find out if there is any way of putting this into a word doc and have it appear in the document as bold itaic text.

I have sorted it using the htmlproject object and parsing the actual HTML of the document and inserting my html string that way.

Thanks for trying though.

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