RE: Win32::OLE on MS Word using Selection.Find.Execute
Peter Buck <> wrote:
> Does anyone have an example of a perl script acting on MS Word
> documents using Win32::OLE and Selection.Find.Execute? I have read
> the
> Win32 man page but its examples for Excel and Access don't help. I
> found a Powershell script that does what I want but can't translate.
> The parts I'm confused on are (1) setting the parameters used in the
> Selection.Find.Execute() invocation (particularly the boolean values,
> since perl doesn't do booleans) and the actual invocation of
> Selection.Find.Execute().
>
> I did find an example using $search-> Execute() but this doesn't
> appear to allow setting all the parameters that
> Selection.Find.Execute() does.
> Also, it operates on $doc-> Content->Find while
> Selection.Find.Execute() operates on $doc->Selection (if I'm right).
> And I'm using Homekey(6) to take me to the top of the document, which
> is linked to Selection and doesn't seem to work in my
> $doc->Content->Find attempts.
>
> Any help or direction to documentation much appreciated.
The primary documentation for OLE apps is the Visual Basic Reference.
The OLE browser supplied with Activestate Perl is also very useful, I
find. Other than that, googling for examples can be useful, followed by
an amount of trial and error. The amount of trial and error needed will
depend on how closely the results of your googling match what you are
trying to do.
>
> Thanks - Toolsmith
>
> # ExpandAcronyms.ps1
> # read acronym list, expand acronyms in target MS Word document #
> syntax: ExpandAcronyms wordDocument
>
> function make-change {
> $FindText = $args[0]
> $FullText = $args[1]
> $ReplaceText = "$FullText ($FindText)"
>
> $ReplaceAll = 1
> $FindContinue = 1
> $MatchCase = $True
> $MatchWholeWord = $True
> $MatchWildcards = $False
> $MatchSoundsLike = $False
> $MatchAllWordForms = $False
> $Forward = $True
> $Wrap = $FindContinue# don't want it wrapping, wish I
> knew
> what this meant
> $Format = $False
>
> $objWord.Selection.HomeKey(6) > Null
> $result = $objSelection.Find.Execute($FindText,$MatchCase,
> $MatchWholeWord,$MatchWildcards,$MatchSoundsLike,
> $MatchAllWordForms,$Forward,$Wrap,$Format,
> $ReplaceText,$ReplaceAll)
> if ( $result -eq $true ) {
> "$Findtext|$FullText"
> }
>
> }
>
> if ( $args.count -lt 1 ) {
> cd $env:temp
> $strWordFile = [string](resolve-path(Read-Host "Enter Path of
> Word file to be processed")) } else { $strWordFile =
> [string](resolve-path($args[0])) }
>
>
> $objWord = New-Object -ComObject word.application
> $objWord.Visible = $True
> $objDoc = $objWord.Documents.Open($strWordFile)
>
> $objSelection = $objWord.Selection
>
> $d = get-content "d:/temp/acronyms.txt"# read file of acronym
> |
> definition
> foreach ( $l in $d ) {
> ($acro, $def) = $l.split('|')# build
> array
> of acronym, definition
> make-change $acro $def
> }
> "Finished"
> $objWord.Selection.HomeKey(6) > Null
That looks like shell script rather than Perl (Powershell perhaps?).
Your Perl code would have been more useful.
HTH
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Re: Win32::OLE on MS Word using Selection.Find.Execute
Peter,
OLE needs Variant values. Perl and the OLE modules will convert most of
these on he fly for you, but sometimes I find I have a need to convert
booleans explicitly.
my $false = Win32::OLE::Variant->new(VT_VARIANT, 0);
my $true = Win32::OLE::Variant->new(VT_VARIANT, 1);
Mark
On 9/12/2010 4:43 PM, Peter Buck wrote:
>Does anyone have an example of a perl script acting on MS Word
> documents using Win32::OLE and Selection.Find.Execute? I have read the
> Win32 man page but its examples for Excel and Access don't help. I
> found a Powershell script that does what I want but can't translate.
> The parts I'm confused on are (1) setting the parameters used in the
> Selection.Find.Execute() invocation (particularly the boolean values,
> since perl doesn't do booleans) and the actual invocation of
> Selection.Find.Execute().
>
> I did find an example using $search-> Execute() but this doesn't appear
> to allow setting all the parameters that Selection.Find.Execute() does.
> Also, it operates on $doc-> Content->Find while Selection.Find.Execute()
> operates on $doc->Selection (if I'm right). And I'm using Homekey(6) to
> take me to the top of the document, which is linked to Selection and
> doesn't seem to work in my $doc->Content->Find attempts.
>
> Any help or direction to documentation much appreciated.
>
> Thanks - Toolsmith
>
> # ExpandAcronyms.ps1
> # read acronym list, expand acronyms in target MS Word document
> # syntax: ExpandAcronyms wordDocument
>
> function make-change {
> $FindText = $args[0]
> $FullText = $args[1]
> $ReplaceText = "$FullText ($FindText)"
>
> $ReplaceAll = 1
> $FindContinue = 1
> $MatchCase = $True
> $MatchWholeWord = $True
> $MatchWildcards = $False
> $MatchSoundsLike = $False
> $MatchAllWordForms = $False
> $Forward = $True
> $Wrap = $FindContinue# don't want it wrapping, wish I knew
> what this meant
> $Format = $False
>
> $objWord.Selection.HomeKey(6)> Null
> $result = $objSelection.Find.Execute($FindText,$MatchCase,
> $MatchWholeWord,$MatchWildcards,$MatchSoundsLike,
> $MatchAllWordForms,$Forward,$Wrap,$Format,
> $ReplaceText,$ReplaceAll)
>if ( $result -eq $true ) {
>"$Findtext|$FullText"
> }
>
> }
>
> if ( $args.count -lt 1 ) {
> cd $env:temp
> $strWordFile = [string](resolve-path(Read-Host "Enter Path of Word
> file to be processed"))
> } else {
> $strWordFile = [string](resolve-path($args[0]))
> }
>
>
> $objWord = New-Object -ComObject word.application
> $objWord.Visible = $True
> $objDoc = $objWord.Documents.Open($strWordFile)
>
> $objSelection = $objWord.Selection
>
> $d = get-content "d:/temp/acronyms.txt"# read file of acronym |
> definition
> foreach ( $l in $d ) {
> ($acro, $def) = $l.split('|')# build array
> of acronym, definition
> make-change $acro $def
> }
> "Finished"
> $objWord.Selection.HomeKey(6)> Null
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RE: Win32::OLE on MS Word using Selection.Find.Execute
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Peter Buck wrote: > > Does anyone have an example of a perl script acting on MS Word > documents using Win32::OLE and Selection.Find.Execute? Actually, I do, and it is even part of the Win32::OLE module distribution on CPAN. But since it is not being installed with the actual module itself it is somewhat hard to find: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/JDB/Win32-OLE-0.1709/eg/word2pod.pl The script takes a Word document and tries to convert it to POD. Cheers, -Jan ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
