Copying text from Word Document to paste into a Rich-Text webmail system

[ThomasBennett]

Good morning, everyone, 

Thank you in advance for your time and consideration. 

I am trying to use _Word_DocRangeSet to set the range and have everything between "!@" and "#$" selected; this is the entire word document. 

• I have !@ at the beginning of the Word document.

• I have #$ at the end of the Word document.

I am not doing something correctly to have the .selection highlight what needs to be highlighted to copy the text. 

#include "wd_core.au3"
#include "wd_helper.au3"
#include <FileConstants.au3>
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>
#include <StringConstants.au3>
#include <Date.au3>
#include <Array.au3>
#include <File.au3>
#include <Excel.au3>
#include <Word.au3>

Local $sDesiredCapabilities, $sFileOpenDialog, $sRange, $aResult, $sEmailMessage, $sFile, $iTerminate, $sDocName1, $oWord, $oDoc
Local $oRange_Start, $oRange_End, $webmail_message_file, $oRangeActual, $sClipboard

HotKeySet ("{ESC}", "Terminate")

$oWord = _Word_Create()
$webmail_message_file = @ScriptDir & "\Email_Message_Template.docx"
$oDoc = _Word_DocOpen($oWord, $webmail_message_file)
$oRange_Start = _Word_DocFind($oDoc, "!@")
$oRange_End = _Word_DocFind($oDoc, "#$")
$oRange_Actual = _Word_DocRangeSet($oDoc, -1, $oRange_Start, Default, $oRange_End, Default)
$oRange_Actual.Selection
;MsgBox(0, "$oRange_Actual", $oRange_Actual)

Exit

What am I missing?

[GMK]

_Word_DocRangeSet only sets the range.  It doesn't select it.

$oRange_Actual = _Word_DocRangeSet($oDoc, -1, $oRange_Start, Default, $oRange_End, Default)
$oRange_Actual.Select
MsgBox(0, "$oRange_Actual", $oRange_Actual.Selection)

 

Edited February 7, 2025 by GMK
Forgot to proofread

[ThomasBennett]

13 minutes ago, GMK said:

_Word_DocRangeSet only sets the range.  It doesn't select it.

$oRange_Actual = _Word_DocRangeSet($oDoc, -1, $oRange_Start, Default, $oRange_End, Default)
$oRange_Actual.Select
MsgBox(0, "$oRange_Actual", $oRange_Actual.Selection)

 

Thank you @GMK. Should I see it actually highlight the selection? In some of my testing I saw it highlight so I wanted to double-check because it isn't highlighting when $oRange_Actual.Select is used. 

Also, I am running Microsoft Word Version 2408 (Build 17928.20392 (Microsoft 365)) on Windows 11 if there are different VBA calls that should be made. 

[Nine]

Try this :

#include <Word.au3>

Local $oWord = _Word_Create()
Local $webmail_message_file = @ScriptDir & "\Test.docx"
Local $oDoc = _Word_DocOpen($oWord, $webmail_message_file)

 ; to select the whole document
$oDoc.Select

Sleep(2000)

; to select whole document between "!@" and "#$"
Local $oRange = $oDoc.range(2, $oDoc.Characters.Count - 3)
$oRange.Select

 

[ThomasBennett]

13 minutes ago, Nine said:

Try this :

#include <Word.au3>

Local $oWord = _Word_Create()
Local $webmail_message_file = @ScriptDir & "\Test.docx"
Local $oDoc = _Word_DocOpen($oWord, $webmail_message_file)

 ; to select the whole document
$oDoc.Select

Sleep(2000)

; to select whole document between "!@" and "#$"
Local $oRange = $oDoc.range(2, $oDoc.Characters.Count - 3)
$oRange.Select

 

Well I was over doing it by a lot... thank you @Nine!

This is exactly what I was looking for

; to select the whole document
$oDoc.Select

 

Now to figure out how to copy the selection into the clipboard. I'm going to do a deeper dive in the Microsoft Word VBA commands there's probably something there that will do this too. Thank you!

[GMK]

I was wondering why you didn't just select the document but I wasn't going to question it.

You can find more VBA info here, if I'm not mistaken.

[Nine]

32 minutes ago, ThomasBennett said:

Now to figure out how to copy the selection into the clipboard

Just put that after the select :

$oWord.Selection.Copy

 

[ThomasBennett]

6 minutes ago, Nine said:

$oWord.Selection.Copy

@Nine, again thank you! I kept getting an object error and didn't realize that I needed to use $oWord instead of $oDoc!