Microsoft KB Archive/182092

= WD97: Macro to Retrieve Text from Each Cell in a Table =

Article ID: 182092

Article Last Modified on 1/22/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q182092





SUMMARY
This article contains a sample Visual Basic for Applications macro to efficiently loop through each cell in a Word table. This example may help if your code is slower than expected when retrieving data from one or more cells from a table.



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The following sample Visual Basic for Applications macro loops through each cell in the first table of the active document, and assigns a value to the string variable sCellText. Sub RetrieveTableItems Dim oRow As Row Dim oCell As Cell Dim sCellText As String ' Turn on error checking. On Error GoTo ErrorHandler ' Loop through each row in the table. For Each oRow In ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Rows ' Loop through each cell in the current row. For Each oCell In oRow.Cells ' Set sCellText equal to text of the cell. ' Note: This section can be modified to suit ' your programming purposes. sCellText = oCell.Range ' Remove table cell markers from the text. sCellText = Left$(sCellText, Len(sCellText) - 2) Next oCell Next oRow ErrorHandler: If Err <> 0 then Dim Msg As String Msg = "Error # " & Str(Err.Number) & Chr(13) & Err.Description _ & Chr(13) & "Make sure there is a table in the current document." MsgBox Msg,, "Error" End If  End Sub For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

173707 OFF97: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

