Linking Spreadsheet Data to text file

[mjcole]

Hello,

Is it possible to have data in an Excel spread sheet that will be linked to a word document or word text file so that if changes are made to values in the spread sheet, they will also occur in the .doc or .txt file?

I have weights in a Bill Of Material spreadsheet that I want to link to a drawing file.

Michael

 

[gb433054]

Draw a button on your sheet with the forms toolbar.
Copy and paste this code into a module
Right click on the button then assign the macro.
Press the button, hey presto


Option Base 1 'Set arrays to start at 1
Sub Getdata()

Dim ColumnList() As String

' Change this to your file path
MyDataFile = "C:\temp\tmp.txt"

Open MyDataFile For Output As #1

' Get each value from column A
For i = 1 To 65536
' If cell empty then exit loop
' Cells(Row, Column),
If ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1&quot.Cells(i, 1) = "" Then Exit For
' Redimension the array for each row
ReDim Preserve ColumnList(i)
' Assign the value of the current
' row the current array element
ColumnList(i) = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1&quot.Cells(i, 1)

'Write data to file
Print #1, ColumnList(i)
Next i

'Close file
Close #1

End Sub

Hope this helps

 

[Nigel]

All you need to do is "copy" the spread sheet and within word, click edit and paste special, then click "paste link" then ok. The spead sheet is now in word. What ever you do to the spread sheet will automatially be updated in the word document.

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