Microsoft KB Archive/160326

= WD97: Macro to Find Tables in Word Documents =

Article ID: 160326

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q160326





SUMMARY
This article discusses how to find and loop through tables in a document using the Visual Basic for Applications Tables collection.



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The following Visual Basic macro finds each table in a Word document Sub FindTables Dim iResponse As Integer Dim tTable As Table 'If any tables exist, loop through each table in collection. For Each tTable In ActiveDocument.Tables tTable.Select iResponse = MsgBox("Table found. Find next?", 68) If response = vbNo Then Exit For 'User chose to leave search. Next MsgBox prompt:="Search Complete.", buttons:=vbInformation 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

