Solved: How do I replace text in a table?

[Paul_Hossler]

Working a PP 2010 project to apply some cleanup and reformatting to a PP table that is pasted in from an Excel pivot table.

Management is more PP oriented that Excel, so we'll do the number crunching with Excel, summarize with a pivot table and then paste it onto a PP slide.

Bunch of things are applied (so I'll probably be back) but I can't figure out how to do a find and replace to the text in the cells in the table.

Doing it a cell at a time by looping the rows and looping the columns is taking too long.

This doesn't seem to work since it looks like a Table (or the shape) doesn't have a TextFrame ???



Option Explicit

Sub TestThings()
Dim oPres As Presentation
Dim oSlide As Slide
Dim oShape As Shape
Dim oTable As Table
Dim i As Long
Set oPres = ActivePresentation
If oPres Is Nothing Then Exit Sub

Set oSlide = CurrentSlide
If oSlide Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
For Each oShape In oSlide.Shapes
If oShape.HasTable Then

Set oTable = oShape.Table

If oShape.HasTextFrame Then

If oShape.TextFrame.HasText Then

Call oShape.TextFrame.TextRange.Replace(" Total", vbNullString, , msoTrue, msoFalse)
Call oShape.TextFrame.TextRange.Replace("Sum of ", vbNullString, , msoTrue, msoFalse)
Call oShape.TextFrame.TextRange.Replace("Grand Total", "Total", , msoTrue, msoFalse)
Call oShape.TextFrame.TextRange.Replace("(blank)", vbNullString, , msoTrue, msoTrue)
End If


Stop

End If

End If
Next
End Sub



Any help please???

Paul

[John Wilson]

Hi Paul
AFAIK the only way is looping through rows and columns.

[Paul_Hossler]

Thanks John -- I'll stop looking.

BTW, this is the sub that I ended up using.

It just just seems very brute force (inelegant?)


Private Sub Table_Find_Replace(T As Table, BeforeText As String, Optional AfterText As String = vbNullString, _
Optional WholeWords As MsoTriState = False, Optional MatchCase As MsoTriState = False)

Dim iRow As Long, iCol As Long
Dim oText As TextRange, oTemp As TextRange

With T
For iRow = 1 To .Rows.Count
For iCol = 1 To .Columns.Count

Set oText = .Cell(iRow, iCol).Shape.TextFrame.TextRange
Set oTemp = oText.Replace(BeforeText, AfterText, , WholeWords, MatchCase)

Next iCol
Next iRow
End With
End Sub


Paul

[Paul_Hossler]

Also, this set just seems to be a throw-away, since nothing is done with it



Set oTemp = oText.Replace(BeforeText, AfterText, , WholeWords, MatchCase

Paul

[John Wilson]

Hi (again) Paul
I think you'll find only the first occurance in a cell is replaced? If the word is repeated the other occurrances won't change.

May not matter in your situation but I think you could use oTemp like this:

Private Sub Table_Find_Replace(T As Table, BeforeText As String, Optional AfterText As String = vbNullString, _
Optional WholeWords As MsoTriState = False, Optional MatchCase As MsoTriState = False)

Dim iRow As Long, iCol As Long
Dim oText As TextRange, oTemp As TextRange

With T
For iRow = 1 To .Rows.Count
For iCol = 1 To .Columns.Count
Set oText = .Cell(iRow, iCol).Shape.TextFrame.TextRange
Do
Set oTemp = oText.Replace(BeforeText, AfterText, , WholeWords, MatchCase)
Loop While Not oTemp Is Nothing
Next iCol
Next iRow
End With
End Sub

[Paul_Hossler]

Thanks (again) John --

That makes perfect sense

Since I plan to use my little sub in places other than a single table cell, my way would have caused problems

Paul