Article ID: 183714
Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q183714
SYMPTOMS
In a Visual Basic for Applications macro, when you attempt to obtain the number of table rows or columns from a document range, you may receive the following error message:
CAUSE
This error occurs when you use any of the following statements:
ActiveDocument.Content.Rows.Count
ActiveDocument.Content.Columns.Count
ActiveDocument.Range.Rows.Count
ActiveDocument.Range.Columns.Count
This error occurs regardless of whether a table exists in a document.
WORKAROUND
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To obtain a total count of rows in all tables in a document, set up a looping structure to iterate through the tables collection. In the following example, if a table does not exist, the value returned will be zero:
Sub GetTotalDocumentRowCount() Dim tblTable As Table Dim iCount As Integer ' Loop through tables in body of active document. For Each tblTable In ActiveDocument.Tables ' Obtain count of rows for each table and combine. iCount = iCount + tblTable.Rows.Count Next MsgBox iCount End Sub
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.
MORE INFORMATION
For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
181058 OFF98: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles
REFERENCES
For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications
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