WD97: Unable to Get Count of Table Rows or Columns

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

In a Visual Basic for Applications macro, when you attempt to obtain the number of table rows or columns from a document range, you may receive the following error message:

   Run-time error '5907': There is no table at this location.

CAUSE

This error occurs when you use any of the following statements:

   ActiveDocument.Content.Rows.Count

   ActiveDocument.Content.Columns.Count

   ActiveDocument.Range.Rows.Count

   ActiveDocument.Range.Columns.Count

WORKAROUND

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To obtain a total count of rows in all tables in a document, set up a looping structure to iterate through the tables collection. In the following example, if a table does not exist, the value returned will be zero:

   Sub GetRowCount()
      Dim oTable As Object
      Dim iCount As Integer
      For Each oTable In ActiveDocument.Tables
         iCount = iCount + oTable.Rows.Count
      Next
      MsgBox iCount
   End Sub

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Word for Windows 97. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.