How to move down a column cell by cell?

[Ian]

this problem...

when i MoveDown in the table it goes to the cell
on the right then off the table row, before the next lower
cell.

how do i sellect the cell and movedown or movedown a cell?
i've tried Selection.MoveDown unit=wdcell, but it didn't
move???
i've tried
Selection.SelectCell
Selection.MoveDown
but whilst works sometimes jumps cells other times???
usually jumps the cell i'm after
(a large table cell with several bulleted paragraphs)
BUT only/usually on the first run???How unpredictable??

When i get the code working it will run a basic
form that will .find a title eg"WMS3.4" in a table
move down 4 cells to the bulleted paragraphs and
place them in a list box for selection.
I've got the form running with list boxes
I've got the .find working for the title
As the tables are two columns and info is in both sides
eg.

________________________
| WMS2.4 | WMS3.4 |
------------------------
|..........|...........|
|..........|...........|
|..........|...........|
_______________________
| bulleted | bulleted |
|paragraphs|paragraphs |
------------------------
I need to move down under WMS3.4?
some of the other cells have paragraphs in them.

I'm only want to "move down 4 cells to the bulleted
paragraphs"

Hope you can help, and that it is not too busy for you.
Thanks again Ian
PS just thought might try count=3???But simple code may be
better?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Ian,

Best would be if you worked with the Table object, directly,
rather than trying to "imitate" what you'd do with the
keyboard, your eyes, and human judgement

In this case, to keep it really simple for you (theory at a
minimum), if you want the fourth row in the second column of
the table where the selection currently is:

Selection.Tables(1).Cell(4,2).Range.Select
Selection.Collapse

when i MoveDown in the table it goes to the cell
on the right then off the table row, before the next lower
cell.

how do i sellect the cell and movedown or movedown a cell?
i've tried Selection.MoveDown unit=wdcell, but it didn't
move???
i've tried
Selection.SelectCell
Selection.MoveDown
but whilst works sometimes jumps cells other times???
usually jumps the cell i'm after
(a large table cell with several bulleted paragraphs)
BUT only/usually on the first run???How unpredictable??

When i get the code working it will run a basic
form that will .find a title eg"WMS3.4" in a table
move down 4 cells to the bulleted paragraphs and
place them in a list box for selection.
I've got the form running with list boxes
I've got the .find working for the title
As the tables are two columns and info is in both sides
eg.

________________________
| WMS2.4 | WMS3.4 |
------------------------
|..........|...........|
|..........|...........|
|..........|...........|
_______________________
| bulleted | bulleted |
|paragraphs|paragraphs |
------------------------
I need to move down under WMS3.4?
some of the other cells have paragraphs in them.

I'm only want to "move down 4 cells to the bulleted
paragraphs"

Hope you can help, and that it is not too busy for you.
Thanks again Ian
PS just thought might try count=3???But simple code may be
better?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[BONNIE]

ARE YOU USING YOUR TAB OR THE DOWN ARROW KEY? TAB WILL ALLOW YOU TO MOVE ACROSS FIRST AND THENDOWN ACROSS. YOU WILL NEED TO USE THE DOWN AROW KEY