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Cindy M -WordMVP-
 
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Default How to determine the merged columns and rows in a table

Hi ?B?QW51cA==?=,

I am trying to convert the word table to xml format, for which i am not able
to determine the merged cells to replace with "colspan" and "rowspan"
attributes. I tried with WdInformation.wdEndOfRangeColumnNumber and
WdInformation.wdStartOfRangeColumnNumber, but for all cells the value is the
current column number.

The best way for you to do this would be to save the file to HTML format (as a
webpage) then parse that XML (Word's round-trip HTML). That does contain
colspan and rowspan information. Also, this would probably be a lot faster than
trying to convert a Word document through automation. In principle, you
probably should be able to create a transform to do the job.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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