Word PasteSpecial method

[Jacco 0]

Hi everyone,

I am currently working on a script that copies content from one word file to the other. I am however only interested in the unformatted text, headers and different text layout is not good if this gets copied as well.

I know that there exists such a function, namely: PasteSpecial. Also the PasteAndFormat method looks promising. But after several attempts I am unable to properly do this.

This is a bit of the (working) code at the moment, it uses the regular paste method instead.

$OSOURWORDAPP.Selection.WholeStory
$OSOURWORDAPP.Selection.Copy
_WordDocClose($OSOURWORDDOC, 0)
$ODESTWORDAPP = _WordAttach($SDESTFILENAME, "FileName")
$ODESTWORDAPP.Selection.EndKey(6)
$ODESTWORDAPP.Selection.InsertBreak(2)
$ODESTWORDAPP.Selection.Paste

So far I have tried the following variants of the pastespecial without succes

$ODESTWORDAPP.Selection.PasteSpecial(2)
$ODESTWORDAPP.Selection.PasteSpecial(0,0,0,0,2)
$ODESTWORDAPP.Selection.PasteSpecial(0,false,0,false,2)
$ODESTWORDAPP.Selection.PasteSpecial.DataType = 2 (wouldn't compile)
$ODESTWORDAPP.Selection.PasteAndFormate(22)

Please note that the corresponding wdPasteText and wdFormatPlainText are 2 and 22 respectivly.

I have the feeling I am pretty close here, but can't seem to nail it down.

Thanks in advance. Any help is welcome.

Regards,

Jacco

[Juvigy 42]

Try this one:

$ODESTWORDAPP.Selection.PasteSpecial()

Also did you try if it works if you do the same manually?

Sometimes the paste special function in Word/Excel stops working.

[Jacco 0]

hi Juvigy,

Thanks for the reply! The code you suggested does work, but does nothing special, it is just like a regular paste now. I however have found out that headers are only copied if the source document has more than one section. Doing a simple find & replace removes all the sections. When it is then copied no header and footer information isn't copied with anymore. This more than sufficient for me.

_WordDocFindReplace($OSOURWORDDOC, "^b", "")

Later!

Edited November 18, 2009 by Jacco