accessing table within a textbox

[Steve]

How do you reference a table within a textbox in a word
2000 document

I use ......
wordapp.activedocument.storyranges(wdMainTextstory).tables
(2).cell(1,1).range.text
but this fails, presumably because the table is within a
textbox


Regards
Steve

 

[Perry]

Use textrange property of the Shapes().textframe
like examplified below to access tables in a textframe/box

? activedocument.Shapes(1).TextFrame.TextRange.Tables(1).Cell(1,1).Range
zxc


Krgrds,
Perry

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Steve,

How do you reference a table within a textbox in a word
2000 document

I use ......
wordapp.activedocument.storyranges(wdMainTextstory).tables
(2).cell(1,1).range.text
but this fails, presumably because the table is within a
textbox

Yes, that's correct. You need to get the Range within the
Textbox SHAPE object in order to access anything in it.
Roughly:

doc = wordapp.activedocument
tbl = doc.Shapes(Index).TextFrame.TextRange.Tables(2)
tbl.cell(1,1).Range.Text = "Hi"

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
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[steve]

Cindy

Thanks very much for the prompt reply.
Worked a treat


Steve

 

[steve]

Perry

Thank you for your reply

Solved my problem


Steve