Moving Through a Table in a Macro

Summary: Do you need to step through a table, cell by cell, in a macro? It's easy to do using the Move method, as described in this tip. (This tip works with Microsoft Word 97, Word 2000, Word 2002, Word 2003, and Word 2007.)

There may be times when you want to move the insertion point from cell to cell in a table. (Under the control of your macro, of course.) If you are developing a VBA macro, this is done with the Move method, in the following manner:

Selection.Move Unit:=wdCell, Count:=1

In this case, the insertion point moves forward by one cell. If you want to instead move backward, just change the value used for Count:

Selection.Move Unit:=wdCell, Count:=-1

In either case, the insertion point moves to the beginning of the next or previous cell. When moving forward, the insertion point moves left to right, top to bottom through a table. If moving backward, the movement is from right to left, bottom to top. When the beginning or end of the table is reached, the command has no further effect.

Tip #801 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

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