Actually, Macros.dot (which includes the TableCellHelper macro) is still
available from http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...eIncorrect.htm and
Greg Maxey provides a more sophisticated tool at
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Table_Cell_Data.htm

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote in message
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Hi ?B?Q1c=?=,

There's tons of mind-boggling stuff in here about how to use cell
references
for calculations in a table, which will be great...if only I knew how to
enter the refs in the cells in the first place!!!!
Nobody seems to cover that fundamental starting point. Word's inbuilt
Help
doesn't either.
Please explain in simple terms - how do you assign and enter the cell
references within a table (Word 2002)???

I'm not sure what you're asking... You mean you want to see "A", "B", etc.
across the top of the table and "1", "2", etc. down the side? If you see
it, it
will print, you know that? Word is not Excel...

Microsoft used to supply a template named Macros.dot with a tool that told
you
the cell reference of the currently selected cell, but they discontinued
it a
few years ago. Here's a little macro that will tell you the column and row
index (numerical):

Sub ShowCellReference()
Dim rng As Word.Range

Set rng = Selection.Range
If rng.Information(wdWithInTable) Then
Application.StatusBar = "Col " & _
CStr(rng.Cells(1).ColumnIndex) & _
"; Row " & CStr(rng.Cells(1).RowIndex)
End If
End Sub

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

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