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Posted: 06 Apr 2013 08:19 AM PDT

Greetings!

Well, the irregularities of the tables in my files is causing a lot of problems, despite all the help I am getting from the experts on this forum.

Well, perhaps this will be better. A macro to

1) Find every table in the MS Word file with 7 or more rows.
2) Select the entire table.
3) Highlight in yellow (or any other color) the entire table.
4) Find the next table with 7 or more rows ,,, and so on down the file.
5) Split into two tables only those tables with exactly 12 rows (split at the 7th row). Most of the tables are 12 rows, but the other tables with say 7 rows disrupt the other macros that have been provided.

Example of table:

1 blah blah blah blah
2 blah
3
4
5
6
7 (Split here into new table)
8
9
10
11
12

Then I can go back and examine the highlighted tables for editing (such as splitting the tables at the right point).

I would deeply appreciate your help in this matter.

Tweaking Another Search Macro

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 06:32 AM PDT

Greetings!

A day or so ago HansV kindly provided me the following macro (that works well, by the way),

The following macro will select the first table with more than 6 rows that it encounters.

After splitting this table, simply run the macro again.

 

Sub FindLargeTable()
    Dim f As Boolean
    Dim tbl As Table
    For Each tbl In ActiveDocument.Tables
        If tbl.Rows.Count > 6 Then
            tbl.Select
            f = True
            Exit For
        End If
    Next tbl
    If f = False Then
        MsgBox "No tables with more than 6 rows found.", vbInformation
    End If
End Sub


The problem is there are hundreds of tables with over 6 rows, so it is time-consuming to do it over and over.


Could the macro above be tweaked, as follows?


1) Search for tables with over 6 rows, 2) split these tables in half (the seventh row will become the first row), 3) indicate where the split occurred -- in say yellow highlight, and 4) then continue down the file to the bottom.


NOTE: If the macro encounters a table with an usually setup (it will usually be 12 rows, but there could be anomalies) the macro should stop and then the problem can be dealt with.


Most tables contain columns with 6 rows.


I would deeply appreciate your help in this matter.

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