WD2000: Unable to Get Count of Table Rows or Columns

ID: Q212654

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

When you use a Visual Basic for Applications macro to try to obtain the number of table rows or columns from a document range, the following error message may appear:

Run-time error '5907': There is no table at this location.


CAUSE

This error occurs when you use any of the following statements: 


ActiveDocument.Content.Rows.Count
-or-


ActiveDocument.Content.Columns.Count
-or-


ActiveDocument.Range.Rows.Count
-or-


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 sample, if a table does not exist, the value returned will be zero: 


Sub GetTotalDocumentRowCount()
   ' 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


MORE INFORMATION

For more information about using the sample code in this article, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q212536 OFF2000: 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:

Q226118 OFF2000: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications

Additional query words: vb vba vbe 


Keywords          : wd2000 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: June 15, 1999