WORD VBA - Open and save file to new location

[jspattavina]

How can I open a file from a WORD UserForm in the ActiveDocument and save that new file to a different location then the active document containing the UserForm

[gmaxey]

"Open" a file implies a file (specifically that one) already exists.
Save that "new" file implies your are working with a file that you just created.

What is it specifically that you are trying to do?

[fumei]

You save a file using SaveAs. So, use SaveAs. You can save a file in ANY location you want using SaveAs (as long as that location actually exists of course).

Say you open a file c:\yadda\ThisDoc.doc. The fact it is a userform that creates a new file is completely irrelevant....assuming as greg asks you did in fact create a new file.
Sub NowSaveme()
ActiveDocument.SaveAs "c:\SomeCompletely\OtherFolder\andANOTHER_Name.doc"
End Sub
RE: the code above, the new document is of now of course the ActiveDocument.


It does not have to be if you user document objects.

But to reoterate what Greg asked. "What is it specifically that you are trying to do?"

Be specific. Be clear.

[shekhu]

Try this one:

Sub SaveMe()
Set dlgSaveAs = Dialogs(wdDialogFileSaveAs)
With dlgSaveAs
.Name = "E:\TEST" & "\" & "New Name.doc"
.Format = wdFormatDocument
.Show
End With
End Sub

[jspattavina]

From my user form, I want to open a text file, change the name and save it as a new name without making it the active file

[fumei]

Why?

And, if you open it Word (as opposed to using VBA to access it), then this is not possible. If you open it in Word, it IS the active document.

Why open the file just to rename essentially a copy? There are other ways to do this. Look up using FileSystemObject.

I am missing something.

[jspattavina]

I am trying to
(1) Read available text files in the current directory
(2) Choose one file (e.g., mTextFile.txt) and open it
(3) Save the mTextFile.txt to a text box (editing file in text box).
(4) Save the changes to either the same text file or to a new textfile

[fumei]

This is not what you asked. What does:

(1) Read available text files in the current directory
(2) Choose one file (e.g., mTextFile.txt) and open it
(3) Save the mTextFile.txt to a text box (editing file in text box).
(4) Save the changes to either the same text file or to a new textfile

have do with Active Document? If nothing, please state a bit more precisely what you actually do want to do. For example #4 is rather vague...that "or" make quite a bit of difference.

Plus you do not state if the textbox exists already, or are you making a new textbox. I really do not know what you mean by "editing file in text box". You do not edit any files in text boxes, you can change a string in a textbox.

[jspattavina]

This is not what you asked. What does:

(1) Read available text files in the current directory
(2) Choose one file (e.g., mTextFile.txt) and open it
(3) Save the mTextFile.txt to a text box (editing file in text box).
(4) Save the changes to either the same text file or to a new textfile

have do with Active Document? If nothing, please state a bit more precisely what you actually do want to do. For example #4 is rather vague...that "or" make quite a bit of difference.

Plus you do not state if the textbox exists already, or are you making a new textbox. I really do not know what you mean by "editing file in text box". You do not edit any files in text boxes, you can change a string in a textbox.

Sorry for the confusion, I did not put as much detail in as I sould have. Let me be more clear.
- I have a user form that pops up automatically when the word document (userform.doc) is opened.
- The user can click a button on the form called "readRIS" which opens the wdDialogFileOpen dialog. It shows the current directory where the userform.doc is located.
- The user can click on a file to select it. The file to open is a text file but has a .ris extension (e.g., myreferences.ris)
- NOTE: I use ".Display" instead of ".Show" to avoid executing the open command. I just want to get the file name so I can read the file in.

Code:
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With Application.Dialogs(wdDialogFileOpen)
.Display
sFilename = .Name
End With
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- I copy the contents of the textfile as a string to a textbox (called fText) on the form (already existing).
- I send the string containing the contents of "myreferences.ris" in the textbox to a parser which cleans up the data.
- The user can edit the text in the textbox (ftext).

Code
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Public Sub ReadRIS_Click()
Dim sPath As String
With ActiveDocument
' Get filename
With Application.Dialogs(wdDialogFileOpen)
.Display
sFilename = .Name
End With
' Read .ris file
fText = ReadTextFile(sFilename)
' parse .ris file
fileStr = ParseRIS(fText)
' display .ris file and file name
fText = fileStr ' write parsed file to textbox
RISFileName = "source: " & sFilename ' show filename in textbox
End With
End Sub
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- I now want the user to click save button (already existing) that saves the edited info in the textbox (ftext) to a different text file called myreferences.txt.
- Now there are two text files existing with the same name but different extensions. The first is the original myreferences.ris file and the second is the cleaned and edited version with a myreferences.txt extension.

It is working up to the point of saving the Textbox (ftext) to a new file called myreferences.txt. This is the part I am having trouble with.

[fumei]

You seem to think ftext is the textbox.

It is not.

As it seems to me, ftext is a string variable, yes? BTW: it does not seem to be declared here. Is this a global variable? Or are you not using Option Explicit?
fText = fileStr ' write parsed file to textboxThat sure seems like one string variable equals another string variable. It sure does NOT look it does any writing of "parsed file to textbox".

In any case, it does not really matter. IF you have a string (no matter how you got it), yes, you can write it as a text file.

Using, as I have stated...File.SaveAs.

In other words, create a NEW document (temporarily) and copy in your string variable - whatever it is, and however you got it - and do a SaveAs.
Sub SaveAsText()
Dim tempDoc As Document

Set tempDoc = Documents.Add
tempDoc.Range.Text = ftext
tempDoc.SaveAs FileName:="c:\blahblah.txt", _
fileformat:=wdFormatText
tempDoc.Close
Set tempDoc = Nothing
End Sub

The string - ftext - is put into a new document, and that document is saved as a textfile, and then closed.

Done.

If sFilename (also undeclared) is blahblah.ris, and you want to save your text file as blahblah.txt, then strip off the last three characters for your SaveAs filename - assuming it DOES include the full path! Strip off "ris" and replace it with .txt.

I suggest you did without using Replace - unless you can guarantee the filename will never have "ris" as text within it.
[vba]
tempDoc.SaveAs FileName:=Left(sFilename, Len(sFilename) - 3) & "txt", _
fileformat:=wdFormatText

[jspattavina]

Thank you very much. This is exactly what i need. !!!!
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By the way fText is a text box. So when I set

fText = fileStr I am setting the Text or Value for Textbox named fText to the string named fileStr.
:yes
Again - Thanks Gerry

[fumei]

"By the way fText is a text box. So when I set

fText = fileStr I am setting the Text or Value for Textbox named fText to the
string named fileStr.

Oh really? Your code sure does NOT look like that.

There is no Set instruction. There is no declaration of ftext being an object. If it was an object (a textbox) then I suggest you follow standard namaing convention - especially as you do not seem to be declaring things.

objTextbox would indicate to me it is an object.

ftext looks like a string variable.

IF ftext is a textbox (and I remain unconvinced it is) then:
tempDoc.Range.Text = ftext
may fail.

Please answer:

1. are you in fact using Option Explicit

2. what KIND of textbox is this?????

[jspattavina]

I am using the following code to Open a dialog box and let the user select a text file. Then get the file name and open a text file, read the contents to a string (mStr) and then write the string to a textbox (fText). It works for some text files but not others. For example the file "ARE_Journals.ris" opens fine and I can read the data. The file "ARE_MPEG Compression.ris" does not open and read?. Both files can be opened in a text editor and appear to be the similar (structure and line endings etc.).

Can anyone tell me what is wrong?

CODE:
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With ActiveDocument
mStr = ""
'Get filename
With Application.Dialogs(wdDialogFileOpen)
.Display
sFileName = .Name
End With
'Prepend path to Filename
sFile = ThisDocument.path & "\" & sFileName
'OpenFile
Dim iFile As Integer
On Local Error Resume Next
'Use FreeFile to supply a file number that is not already in use
iFile = FreeFile
Open sFile For Input As #iFile
'Read the whole content of the file to the string called mStr
mStr = Input$(LOF(iFile), iFile)
Close #iFile
'Write the Str to a TextBox called fText
fText.Text = mStr
End With