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mraviator
mraviator

Reputation: 4074

How to Pretty print VBA code?

How do you copy VBA code into a Word document and retain the VBA editor color scheme?

Upvotes: 45

Views: 45271

Answers (7)

Heinzi
Heinzi

Reputation: 172468

The following works with Visual Studio Code:

  1. Start VS Code.
  2. New file.
  3. Copy & Paste the VBA code into the VS Code window.
  4. In the lower right-hand corner, click on "Plain Text" and select "Visual Basic" instead. Note that the code is now syntax-highlighted.
  5. Copy & Paste the formatted code into Word.

Upvotes: 1

John Wynne
John Wynne

Reputation: 31

For a more modern approach, Sublime Text users can install ExportHTML from Package Control. This has the added benefit of being able to include the line numbers, and changing the code coloration.

HTML files can be opened directly within Word.

Upvotes: 2

Pierre Bonaparte
Pierre Bonaparte

Reputation: 633

I would recommend this one: planetB

It works well with Internet Explorer (didn't work wit Firefox for me, not sure abt Chrome).

Plus it's online, so no need to install anything (the case of Company/University PC's)

Regards
Wheeliam

Upvotes: 1

Henrik Erlandsson
Henrik Erlandsson

Reputation: 3830

Smart Indenter could be what you're looking for? You'd load the result into Notepad++, set language to VB and save as .rtf/.doc (or print to file, can't remember off the top of my head).

Upvotes: 2

Breakthrough
Breakthrough

Reputation: 2534

You can use Notepad++ to accomplish this in three ways. Just so you know, Notepad++ is a more advanced version of Notepad, which supports syntax highlighting of different code files "out of the box" - Visual Basic included!

Download & install it, fire it up, and load up your VBA code. You should automatically see it beautifully coloured (if not, because the file extension is something other than .vb, go to Language -> VB or Language -> V -> VB).

If you need to change any of the colours, you can easily do so - just go to Settings -> Styler Configurator. From that menu, you can change the various highlighting and font options, to suit your needs - although the default usually suffices for most.

Then, go to Plugins -> NppExport. From there, you have three options you can consider:

  • Directly print from Notepad++
  • Copy all formats to clipboard
  • Export to RTF
  • Export to HTML

The first is self explanatory. The second one - "Copy all formats to clipboard" - will copy the entire file with the highlighted syntax to the clipboard. Once you click it, then open Microsoft Word or your other favourite document editor, and just hit paste! You should see the beautifully syntax-highlighted code. If something goes wrong, then you can try one of the other options (export to RTF/HTML), although I've never had a problem with the clipboard method.

Upvotes: 44

richj
richj

Reputation: 7529

Highlight supports a wide range of Operating Systems and 150+ languages including Visual Basic, although I'm not sure about VBA.

Upvotes: 1

Mehper C. Palavuzlar
Mehper C. Palavuzlar

Reputation: 10409

There are two programs on cnet downloads, which are free to try. In case you did not try them, here are the links:

Upvotes: 2

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