Solved: Tables In Word Query

[petedw]

Hey guys,

A bit of advice if you may.... When telling VBA to delete certain tables, i have to tell it the number of the table that i wish to delete.
This is causing me quite a few problems because this number is always different.
For example, i may tell vba to delete table(6) but occasionally a table before this doesnt exist and so it becomes table(5).
Is there a way of naming your tables so that you can refer to them easily??

Many Thanks

Pete

[MOS MASTER]

Hi Pete,

Depends on what you find easy?

All possibillities are listed in this simular topic:
http://www.vbaexpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3512

Enjoy!

[petedw]

Thanks Joost, that'll do me

[fumei]

No, unfortunately there is not really.

However, that being said, there is a way to get around it. It depends on your requirements.

As you have discovered Tables(6).Delete will delete the sixth table (regardless of whether it is the correct one) OR give an error because there is only five now (as an example).

The easiest solution is to bookmark your tables. Select the whole table, give it a bookmark. Now if you want to delete it (or select it, or whatever), you can reference directly, as a bookmark. Such as:

ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Table6").Delete

Just remember that in the above example, "Table6" is a name. If you selected the first table and named its bookmark as Table6....then that would be its name.

So say you have a table of, I don't know, client names and addresses. Make it a bookmark named ClientInfo. You can now reference it, action it, as a bookmark.

[MOS MASTER]

Glad to here...Ps...take on Gerry's advice!

[petedw]

Make it a bookmark, of course!! I can't believe i didnt think of that

Thanks Gerry