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How can I truncate a footer to the first 15 characters? Word 2010 vba

I am splitting a word document with multiple letters to individual files. The text I want to use as the filename is in the first 14 characters of the footer.
I need to truncate the footer to name the files.
I am very new to vba, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Below is my code :

Sub BreakOnPVOHSection()

Dim letter As Range
Dim fname As Range
Dim target As Document
Dim strFileName As String
Dim strID As String
    
 ' Used to set criteria for moving through the document by section.
 Application.Browser.target = wdBrowseSection

'A mailmerge document ends with a section break next page.
 For i = 1 To ((ActiveDocument.Sections.Count) - 1)
   
     Set fname = ActiveDocument.Sections(i).Footers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range
     fname.End = fname.End - 1

   
      'Select and copy the section text to the clipboard
      ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("\Section").Range.Copy

      'Create a new document to paste text from clipboard.
      Documents.Add
      Selection.Paste
         
 '        ActiveDocument.Bookmarks = Mid(fname, 0, 12)
 
       ChangeFileOpenDirectory "\\vcuhshmo\users\lheaton\bpa"
       docnum = docnum + 1
       ActiveDocument.SaveAs fileName:=fname.Text & ".docx"

       ActiveDocument.Close savechanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges
      ' Move the selection to the next section in the document
      Application.Browser.Next
   
   Next i
     
 ActiveDocument.Close savechanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges
End Sub

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GrahamSkan

Try it this way:

Sub BreakOnPVOHSection()

Dim strFileName As String
Dim docNew As Document
Dim sec As Section
Dim docA As Document
Dim rng As Range
Dim docnum As Integer

 Set docA = ActiveDocument 'capture initial active document into an object variable,
                          'so that we don't have to keep track of which document is currently active
                          
'A mailmerge document ends with a section break next page.
For Each sec In docA.Sections
   
    'truncate and delete any paragraph marks
    strFileName = Replace(Left(sec.Footers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range, 14), vbCr, "")
     
    Set rng = sec.Range
    If Len(rng) = 1 Then 'last section
        Exit For
    End If
    rng.MoveEnd wdCharacter, -1 'drop section break
    rng.Copy

    'Create a new document to paste text from clipboard.
    Set docNew = Documents.Add
    docNew.Range.Paste
         
       docnum = docnum + 1
       'docNew.SaveAs FileName:="\\vcuhshmo\users\lheaton\bpa\" & strFileName & ".docx"
       docNew.SaveAs FileName:="C:\MyFolder\" & strFileName & ".docx"

       docNew.Close savechanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges
Next sec
 docA.Close savechanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges
End Sub

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jbndylan

ASKER

The naming works beautifully, thank you. But it's stripping out the header, footer and formatting that are needed. I will add those parts back in and see how it goes!!! Thank you so much for resolving this naming thing. Whew!

jbndylan

ASKER

I'm sorry. I was not clear regarding the header/footer. Those I want to keep. Only for the filename do I want to include the first 14 characters of the footer. The names your code came up with are perfect.

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jbndylan

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You are my hero of heros!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been working on this forever. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are a genius!