does this exist? given ms-word doc, generate the VBA to create it?

[BruceG]

Hello -
Just thought I'd put this out there to see in anyone has heard of such a thing. (I realize this is not a VB.NET question per se, although I will be doing some automation of Word in the VB project I have going.)

I was wondering if there was some tool out there that, upon examining an existing Word document, generates the VBA script to create that document.

Same concept as in SQL Server, where you can "Script Table as CREATE ...".

[stanav]

A single line script

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[BruceG]

With all due respect, you are missing the point.

Let's say there is an existing Word document with involved margin settings, bulleted lists, outlining, other formatting, whatever.

The task at hand to programmatically generate such a document, with data from a database; i.e. a typical Word automation task.

If you don't know the various Word methods off the top of your head, a typical way of getting a clue is to a record a macro as you attempt to recreate the formatting, so that you can then modify the generated VBA code accordingly.

What I'm saying is that it would be nice to have a utility that looks at a Word document and generates the equivalent VBA code to produce it. In other words, "OK, here is the VBA code that would be required to produce a document like this." One could of course then take such code, modify it and incorporate it into the app that is tasked with dynamically producing such a document.

[Lightning]

It is a template (.dot(x)) file