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

ID: Q182092

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

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:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q173707
   TITLE     : OFF97: 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:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q163435
   TITLE     : VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for
               Applications

Additional query words: wordcon vb vba vbe

Keywords          : kbdta kbdtacode OffVBA kbmacroexample word8 word97 
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: April 7, 1999