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What limits are there to nesting tables in Word? And what problems
are encountered as you nest deeply? I'm developing an "application" that involves lots of tables within tables within tables within.... In general I'm really impressed with how well Word handles deeply nested table structures. Of course, performance does suffer as nesting gets deeper. But I haven't found any "hard" limit to how many levels of nesting you can have. One problem I *have* encountered is this: apparently, you can't set the font as hidden/unhidden when there are ten or more nested tables. To explain: In my application, it is often useful to hide the "children" (nested tables) of a table. A very handy trick for doing this is to simply set the font of the nested tables to hidden; e.g.: Selection.Cells(1).Tables(1).Range.Font.Hidden = True However, if you try this when Tables(1) itself contains 9 or more tables, then you get an error. If you ask Word to tell you the "hidden" status of the topmost nested table msgbox Selection.Cells(1).Tables(1).Range.Font.Hidden it returns "9999999" - i.e. apparently it just can't calculate the status. I'm interested whether anyone else (a) has encountered the same problem, or perhaps has a fix/workaround (b) more generally, knows of any other limits to nesting, or problems you encounter when doing lots of nesting. |
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There seems to be a limit of nine on other things: outline numbering levels,
MRU list (Word 2003 and earlier), files on the Work menu. This suggests some built-in limitation of the code. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "TimvG" wrote in message ... What limits are there to nesting tables in Word? And what problems are encountered as you nest deeply? I'm developing an "application" that involves lots of tables within tables within tables within.... In general I'm really impressed with how well Word handles deeply nested table structures. Of course, performance does suffer as nesting gets deeper. But I haven't found any "hard" limit to how many levels of nesting you can have. One problem I *have* encountered is this: apparently, you can't set the font as hidden/unhidden when there are ten or more nested tables. To explain: In my application, it is often useful to hide the "children" (nested tables) of a table. A very handy trick for doing this is to simply set the font of the nested tables to hidden; e.g.: Selection.Cells(1).Tables(1).Range.Font.Hidden = True However, if you try this when Tables(1) itself contains 9 or more tables, then you get an error. If you ask Word to tell you the "hidden" status of the topmost nested table msgbox Selection.Cells(1).Tables(1).Range.Font.Hidden it returns "9999999" - i.e. apparently it just can't calculate the status. I'm interested whether anyone else (a) has encountered the same problem, or perhaps has a fix/workaround (b) more generally, knows of any other limits to nesting, or problems you encounter when doing lots of nesting. |
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