How to split document into multiple documents in word?
If you have a massive word document which you need to split into multiple documents, take a few minutes to read this tutorial. This tutorial will show you two methods for splitting a document into multiple documents.
- Split Word document by specified delimiter with VBA
- Split Word document by page with VBA
- Split Word document by heading/page/section break/page break with using Kutools for Word
Split Word document by specified delimiter with VBA
Instead of splitting document into multiple documents manually, this method will introduce a VBA to split a Word document by the specified delimiter in Word. Please do as follows:
1. Press Alt + F11 keys together to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window;
2. Click Insert > Module, and then paste below VBA code into the new opening Module window.
VBA: Split Word Document into Multiple Documents by Delimiter
Sub SplitNotes(delim As String, strFilename As String)
Dim doc As Document
Dim arrNotes
Dim I As Long
Dim X As Long
Dim Response As Integer
arrNotes = Split(ActiveDocument.Range, delim)
Response = MsgBox("This will split the document into " & UBound(arrNotes) + 1 & " sections.Do you wish to proceed?", 4)
If Response = 7 Then Exit Sub
For I = LBound(arrNotes) To UBound(arrNotes)
If Trim(arrNotes(I)) <> "" Then
X = X + 1
Set doc = Documents.Add
doc.Range = arrNotes(I)
doc.SaveAs ThisDocument.Path & "\" & strFilename & Format(X, "000")
doc.Close True
End If
Next I
End Sub
Sub test()
'delimiter & filename
SplitNotes "///", "Notes "
End Sub
3. Then click Run button or press F5 key to apply the VBA.
4. In the popping out Microsoft Word document, please click the Yes button to go ahead.
Note:
(1) Be sure to add your delimiter as the same as "///" in the sub test to the document between each section of text you wish to separate. Also, you can change "///" to any delimiters to meet your need.
(2) You can change the documents "Notes" in the sub Test to suit your needs.
(3) And the splitting documents will be saved to the same place with the original file.
(4) You do not need to add delimiter to the end of the original file, if you do, there will be a blank document after splitting.
Split Word document by page with VBA
Here is another VBA to help you quickly split one Word document to multiple by page in Word. Please do as follows:
1. Press Alt + F11 keys together to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window;
2. Click Insert > Module, and then paste below VBA code into the new opening Module window.
VBA: Split Document into Multiple Documents by Page in Word
Sub SplitIntoPages()
Dim docMultiple As Document
Dim docSingle As Document
Dim rngPage As Range
Dim iCurrentPage As Integer
Dim iPageCount As Integer
Dim strNewFileName As String
Application.ScreenUpdating = False 'Makes the code run faster and reduces screen _
flicker a bit.
Set docMultiple = ActiveDocument 'Work on the active document _
(the one currently containing the Selection)
Set rngPage = docMultiple.Range 'instantiate the range object
iCurrentPage = 1
'get the document's page count
iPageCount = docMultiple.Content.ComputeStatistics(wdStatisticPages)
Do Until iCurrentPage > iPageCount
If iCurrentPage = iPageCount Then
rngPage.End = ActiveDocument.Range.End 'last page (there won't be a next page)
Else
'Find the beginning of the next page
'Must use the Selection object. The Range.Goto method will not work on a page
Selection.GoTo wdGoToPage, wdGoToAbsolute, iCurrentPage + 1
'Set the end of the range to the point between the pages
rngPage.End = Selection.Start
End If
rngPage.Copy 'copy the page into the Windows clipboard
Set docSingle = Documents.Add 'create a new document
docSingle.Range.Paste 'paste the clipboard contents to the new document
'remove any manual page break to prevent a second blank
docSingle.Range.Find.Execute Findtext:="^m", ReplaceWith:=""
'build a new sequentially-numbered file name based on the original multi-paged file name and path
strNewFileName = Replace(docMultiple.FullName, ".doc", "_" & Right$("000" & iCurrentPage, 4) & ".doc")
docSingle.SaveAs strNewFileName 'save the new single-paged document
iCurrentPage = iCurrentPage + 1 'move to the next page
docSingle.Close 'close the new document
rngPage.Collapse wdCollapseEnd 'go to the next page
Loop 'go to the top of the do loop
Application.ScreenUpdating = True 'restore the screen updating
'Destroy the objects.
Set docMultiple = Nothing
Set docSingle = Nothing
Set rngPage = Nothing
End Sub
3. Then click Run button or press F5 key to apply the VBA.
Note: The splitting documents will be saved to the same place with the original file.
Split Word document by heading/page/section break/page break with using Kutools for Word
If you have Kutools for Word installed, you can apply its Split function to easily split one document into multiple ones by page, heading, section break, or page break as you need in Word..
1.Click Kutools Plus > Split to enable the Split feature.
2. In the opening Split dialog in the screen, you can do as follows:
(1) Choose the splitting way from the Split by drop-down list.
This feature supports 6 splitting ways: heading 1, page breaks, section breaks, pages, every n pages, and custom page ranges as below screenshot shown:
(2) Click the Browse button to specify the destination folder you will save the split documents into;
(3) Type in a keyword as the prefix of new document names in the Document Prefix box.
Tips:
(1) If you specify the split the current document by Every n pages, you need to specify the number in the Every n pages box;
(2) If you specify to split the current document by custom page ranges, you need to enter these custom page ranges separated by commas in the Page box, for example, type 1, 3-5, 12 in the box.
3. Click the Ok button to start splitting.
Then the current document is split by the specified splitting way, and new documents will be saved into the destination folder in bulk.
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