MS Word: No of columns in row?

[ShaneBrennan]

Hi Everyone

Does anyone know how to detect/count how many columns there are in the currently selected row in a Word table?

I need to detect how many columns are in a table so I can decide to enter info into a 3 column table or 2 columns?

Thank you in advance for any help given.

Shane Brennan

 

[SkipVought]

Hi,

Check out the Table & Columns Objects in VB Help

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[AndyGroom]

Could be tricky. I think a colleague tried to do the same thing but the problem is that because you can merge cells vertically and horizontally it's very difficult to say how many rows and columns a table actually has. It might be obvious if you draw a 3x3 table that it has 3 rows and 3 columns but if you merge all the cells on the first row to make a title area then does the first row have 1 column or 3?

You'll notice that in Word you can insert a table with specific starting dimensions but after that there isn't a table 'editor' per se. You can add rows and columns but you can't change the dimensions using the same method you used to add it in the first place, which is related to the reason above.

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[SkipVought]

If you did this...

Sub test()
    Dim r As Row
    With ThisDocument.Tables(1)
        For Each r In .Rows
            MsgBox r.Cells.Count
        Next
    End With
End Sub

AND had vertically merged cells, you would get an error message on the FOR statement.

Otherwise you get a column count for each row.

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[ShaneBrennan]

Thank you everyone for all your help.


Shane Brennan