Opening Word Doc with VBA results in empty variable

Question

I am trying to copy the contents of a Word document into any cell in Excel. I have the filepath and filename of the document.

I get a variable with 'Nothing' as the value for the contents of the Word document (variable name = wdoc).

Sub readEmails()

Dim oFSO As Object, oFolder As Object, oFile As Object
Dim i As Integer
Dim sFileSmall As String, sFileYear As String, sFilePath As String
Dim wapp As Word.Application
Dim wdoc As Word.Document

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' USER INPUT
sFileSmall = "C:\Users\filesToRead\"


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sFilePath = sFileSmall

' Get variable with filenames from folder (Only contains word docs)
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oFolder = oFSO.getfolder(sFilePath)

i = 1

For Each oFile In oFolder.Files
    'Sheet1.Cells(i, 5).Value = oFile.Name
    
    Set wapp = GetObject(, "Word.Application")
    If wapp Is Nothing Then
        Set wapp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
    End If
    wapp.Visible = True
    Set wdoc = wapp.Documents.Open(sFilePath & oFile) '<---- Error here. Assigns an empty variable
   ' Range("a1:a1") = wdoc.Content.Text
    
    i = i + 1
    
Next oFile

End Sub

Answer 1

This error is the result of inputting an incompatible variable type into the Documents.Open() method.

Set wdoc = wapp.Documents.Open(sFilePath & oFile) 

The Documents.Open() method requires a filename as a string to be input. While sFilePath is declared as a string, oFile is declared as an object.

In this case the .Name property of the File-object produces the desired string. Thus the correct code is:

 Set wdoc = wapp.Documents.Open(sFilePath & oFile.Name)