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Sub ConvertWordsToPdfs() | |
Dim directory As String | |
directory = "C:\Wordup" ' The starting directory | |
Dim fso, folder, files | |
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") | |
Set folder = fso.GetFolder(directory) | |
Set files = folder.files | |
For Each file In files | |
Dim newName As String | |
newName = Replace(file.Path, ".doc", ".pdf") | |
Documents.Open FileName:=file.Path, _ | |
ConfirmConversions:=False, ReadOnly:=False, AddToRecentFiles:=False, _ | |
PasswordDocument:="", PasswordTemplate:="", Revert:=False, _ | |
WritePasswordDocument:="", WritePasswordTemplate:="", Format:= _ | |
wdOpenFormatAuto, XMLTransform:="" | |
ActiveDocument.ExportAsFixedFormat OutputFileName:=newName, _ | |
ExportFormat:=wdExportFormatPDF, OpenAfterExport:=False, OptimizeFor:= _ | |
wdExportOptimizeForPrint, Range:=wdExportAllDocument, From:=1, To:=1, _ | |
Item:=wdExportDocumentContent, IncludeDocProps:=True, KeepIRM:=True, _ | |
CreateBookmarks:=wdExportCreateNoBookmarks, DocStructureTags:=True, _ | |
BitmapMissingFonts:=True, UseISO19005_1:=False | |
ActiveDocument.Close | |
Next | |
End Sub |
Cool. Seems to work only for Word files. This complements exporting Excel to PDF: http://analystcave.com/vba-excel-to-pdf-exporter-single-batch-export/
Nice code! how could it be modified to include subdirectories? also when i launch it, words ask for confirmation of save changes of several files. How could this be avoided?
Thanks in advance!!
salvaleuven, Have you got any method to avoid the confirmation dialog, programmatically?
@salvaleuven, you could try Application.DisplayAlerts = False and Application.DisplayAlerts = True at the end. Also, about the subfolders, check the link below.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/22645439/2449724
Thanks for this code, @sebnilsson, it is really useful!
If this code is used on .docx files, it results in the invalid extension .pdfx. (This is a curious bug, since the .docx format was introduced with Office 2007.) The problem can be avoided by replacing line 15 with these two statements:
newName = Replace(file.Path, ".docx", ".pdf")
newName = Replace(newName, ".docx", ".pdf")
Only one of the two replacements will make any change in the string, so the result will be a .pdf extension in either case.
I encounter a Run-Time error '424' Object Required at line 17. I made sure to select Microsoft Scripting Runtime in References - VBAProject.
Can someone help?
Same here as snicker40. Showing Run-Time error '424' Object Required at line 17. However I am trying to convert a folder of pdfs into docs. So I made slight changes in the original code posted here.
Please look at it and suggest me where I need to make changes in order to get the macro running.
Sub ConvertPdfsToDocs()
Dim directory As String
directory = "E:\Sayan\Sayan_May_2018\Rajeev data cleaning\Invoice extraction May2018\PDF invoices\06_06_18_Batch8_total\Batch8_sayan\" ' The starting directory
Dim fso, newFile, folder, files
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set folder = fso.GetFolder(directory)
Set files = folder.files
For Each file In files
Dim newName As String
newName = Replace(file.path, ".pdf", ".doc")
Documents.Open FileName:=file.path, _
ConfirmConversions:=False, ReadOnly:=False, AddToRecentFiles:=False, _
PasswordDocument:="", PasswordTemplate:="", Revert:=False, _
WritePasswordDocument:="", WritePasswordTemplate:="", Format:= _
wdOpenFormatAuto, XMLTransform:=""
ActiveDocument.ExportAsFixedFormat OutputFileName:=newName, _
ExportFormat:=wdExportFormatDOC, OpenAfterExport:=False, OptimizeFor:= _
wdExportOptimizeForPrint, Range:=wdExportAllDocument, From:=1, To:=1, _
Item:=wdExportDocumentContent, IncludeDocProps:=True, KeepIRM:=True, _
CreateBookmarks:=wdExportCreateNoBookmarks, DocStructureTags:=True, _
BitmapMissingFonts:=True, UseISO19005_1:=False
ActiveDocument.Close
Next
End Sub
same issue here. Error 424 any answers?
You need to enable Reference Microsoft Word if not enabled. Thanks @sebnilsson, & @mvpjjf.
#same issue here. Error 424 any answers?
Sub ConvertWordsToPdfs()
Dim directory As String
Dim fldr As Object
Set fldr = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFolderPicker)
With fldr
.Title = "Select folder with Word files to export to PDF"
.AllowMultiSelect = False
If .Show <> -1 Then Exit Sub
directory = .SelectedItems(1)
End With
Dim fso, newFile, folder, files
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set folder = fso.GetFolder(directory)
Set files = folder.files
For Each file In files
Dim newName As String
newName = Replace(file.Path, ".docx", ".pdf")
newName = Replace(newName, ".doc", ".pdf")
'Debug.Print file.Path
Documents.Open Filename:=file.Path, _
ConfirmConversions:=False, _
ReadOnly:=False, _
AddToRecentFiles:=False, _
PasswordDocument:="", _
PasswordTemplate:="", _
Revert:=False, _
WritePasswordDocument:="", _
WritePasswordTemplate:="", _
Format:= _
wdOpenFormatAuto, _
XMLTransform:=""
ActiveDocument.ExportAsFixedFormat OutputFileName:=newName, _
ExportFormat:=wdExportFormatPDF, _
OpenAfterExport:=False, _
OptimizeFor:= _
wdExportOptimizeForPrint, _
Range:=wdExportAllDocument, _
From:=1, To:=1, _
Item:=wdExportDocumentContent, _
IncludeDocProps:=True, _
KeepIRM:=True, _
CreateBookmarks:=wdExportCreateNoBookmarks, _
DocStructureTags:=True, _
BitmapMissingFonts:=True, _
UseISO19005_1:=False
ActiveDocument.Close
Next
End Sub
The "newFile" variable never is used