Casting Error

Aspose.Words Product Family
1

Hello,

I am receiving the error:

Unable to cast object of type ‘Aspose.Words.BookmarkStart’ to type ‘Aspose.Words.Tables.Cell’

when trying to see if a cell in a table contains text. I have the following code snippet to provide some context:

doc.UpdateFields()
Dim tables As Node() = doc.GetChildNodes(NodeType.Table, True).ToArray()
Dim table As Tables.Table = DirectCast(tables(0), Tables.Table)
Dim rowToRemove As New ArrayList()

For Each row As Tables.Row In table.Rows
	Dim emptyrow As [Boolean] = True
	For Each cell As Tables.Cell In row
		If cell.GetText.Trim <> "" Then
			emptyrow = False
		End If
	Next

	If emptyrow = True Then
		rowToRemove.Add(row)
	End If
Next

For Each row As Tables.Row In rowToRemove
	If row IsNot Nothing Then
		row.Remove()
	End If
Next

Any ideas why this may be happening? I am using Aspose.Words version 21.2 if that helps in any way.

Thanks,

Trevor

2

@trevor.karl Could you please attach your problematic document here for testing? We will check the issue and provide you more information.

3

Here’s my problematic document. Thanks for the quick response!
JETemplate_Ex-Member.docx (29.6 KB)

4

@trevor.karl Please replace the following line:

For Each cell As Tables.Cell In row

to the following

For Each cell As Tables.Cell In row.Cells
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5

@alexey.noskov That actually worked! You’re incredible, sir. Thank you so much for the help, I appreciate it greatly!

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