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by jocallahan

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In writing data from Access 2003 to a Word 2003 table using Automation, the Word table doesn't continue from page to page as it does automatically when manually inserting new rows. It merely grows to the size of one page, including header and footer and then stops taking data. Here's the code I'm using to add rows to the table as I write data to it.

Set WordObj = CreateObject("Word.Application")
Set WordDoc = WordObj.Documents.Open("C:\TestDoc.dot")
.
.
lRow = lRow + 1
.
.
If WordDoc.Tables(1).Rows.Count < lRow Then
WordDoc.Tables(1).Rows.Add
End If

Thanks for your help.

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by fwang

In word, if you move right of the last cell in a table of last row, Word will automatically append a new row. Following macro will create a table with 1 row 3 column, and automatically fill data and grow to 10 rows:

Sub Macro3()
Dim i As Integer, j As Integer

ActiveDocument.Tables.Add Range:=Selection.Range, NumRows:=2, NumColumns:= _
3, DefaultTableBehavior:=wdWord9TableBehavior, AutoFitBehavior:= _
wdAutoFitFixed
With Selection.Tables(1)
If .Style <> "Table Grid" Then
.Style = "Table Grid"
End If
.ApplyStyleHeadingRows = True
.ApplyStyleLastRow = True
.ApplyStyleFirstColumn = True
.ApplyStyleLastColumn = True
End With

For i = 1 To 10
For j = 1 To 3
Selection.TypeText Text:=i & j
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell
Next
Next
End Sub

by jocallahan

Thanks fwang for your quick reply. I changed my code to your prototype, but am still having the same problem. The table goes row-by-row as expected until it fills the first page, then it jumps to page 2 and continues until the entire page is filled with a table. The last rows are now invisible and there is a blank page 3. I've included a more complete code sample. Thanks again for your help. BTW am using Word 2003 SP2.

Dim MyRs As Recordset
Dim WordObj As Word.Application
Dim WordDoc As Word.Document

Dim i As Integer, iCellCount As Integer

Set MyRs = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset("qryClients")
MyRs.MoveFirst

Set WordObj = CreateObject("Word.Application")
WordObj.Visible = True

Set WordDoc = WordObj.Documents.Add("C:\Clients.dot")

iTables = WordDoc.Tables.Count

If iTables > 0 Then

With WordDoc.Tables(1)
If .Style <> "Table Grid" Then
.Style = "Table Grid"
End If
.ApplyStyleHeadingRows = True
.ApplyStyleLastRow = True
.ApplyStyleFirstColumn = True
.ApplyStyleLastColumn = True
End With

iCellCount = WordDoc.Tables(1).Rows(1).Cells.Count

End If

With WordObj.Application
.ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Select

Do While Not MyRs.EOF

For i = 1 To iCellCount
.Selection.TypeText Text:=Nz(MyRs(Field(i)), "")
.Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell
Next i

MyRs.MoveNext
Loop

End With

WordDoc.SaveAs "C:\Clients.Doc"

MyRs.Close
WordObj.Quit
Set WordObj = Nothing

by jocallahan

Setting the Table Property - Text Wrapping to None in the document template solved the problem. Thanks for your help.
Do you know how to set that property in code?
Thanks, John

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