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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.
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2015-11-10 00:04:48
JoonYoung Kim
I'm from Korea. It was a great help.
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2014-08-28 03:15:33
Patrick LEBLANC
A big Thank you for this tip, it brings a very simple and easy to understand explanation of the "Move" function.
I had spent a lot of time trying to understand MSDN examples, with no success (with wdword, wdunit, and so on).
Now I'm saved!
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