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Access paths:
▪Application à Documents à Item à Tables à Item à Rows à Item à Cells
▪Application à ActiveDocument à Tables à Item à Rows à Item à Cells
1 Description
Cells is a collection of all table cells in an individual table row. The individual elements of this collection are of the type Cell.
2 Access to the collection
Each row of a table has exactly one instance of the Cells collection. It is accessed through the object pointer Cells of the table row:
' Display the number of cells in the secondnd row of the first table
MsgBox tm.ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Rows(2).Cells.Count
3 Properties, objects, collections and methods
Properties:
▪Count R/O
Objects:
▪Item → Cell (default object)
▪Application → Application
▪Parent → Row
Count (property, R/O)
Data type: Long
Returns the number of Cell objects in the table row – in other words: the number of cells in the table row.
Item (pointer to object)
Data type: Object
Returns an individual Cell object, i.e. an individual table cell.
Which Cell object you get depends on the numeric value that you pass to Item: 1 for the first cell in the table row, 2 for the second, etc.
Application (pointer to object)
Data type: Object
Returns the Application object.
Parent (pointer to object)
Data type: Object
Returns the parent object, i.e. an object of the type Table.