Looping Through All Cells in a Table

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1

Hi,
Please can you tell me if it is possible to loop through all cells in a table using Aspose.Words? I know Aspose.Words can support this by looping through all of the cells in a row, but I am adapting some existing code that uses Word Automation to loop through all the cells in a whole table, and if I could replicate this in Aspose.Words then it would save me a considerable amount of rewriting.
Thanks for your help

2

Hi
Thanks for your request. Try to use the following code example.

Document doc = new Document(@"189_94559_workaholicme\in.doc");
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
NodeCollection cells = doc.FirstSection.Body.Tables[0].GetChildNodes(NodeType.Cell, true);
foreach (Cell cell in cells)
{
    builder.MoveTo(cell.FirstParagraph);
    builder.Write("test");
}
doc.Save(@"189_94559_workaholicme\out.doc");
Or the following
Document doc = new Document(@"189_94559_workaholicme\in.doc");
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
foreach (Row row in doc.FirstSection.Body.Tables[0].Rows)
{
    foreach (Cell cell in row.Cells)
    {
        builder.MoveTo(cell.FirstParagraph);
        builder.Write("_test_");
    }
}
doc.Save(@"189_94559_workaholicme\out.doc");

I hope that it will help you.
Best regards.

3

Thanks - that’s great. Last question - would you be able to tell me how I can find the row number that each cell belongs to? I think I would be able to use cell.parentrow.indexof, but I can’t seem to get the syntax working correctly. Many thanks

4

Hi
Thanks for your request. try to use the following code snippet.

int index = doc.FirstSection.Body.Tables[0].Rows.IndexOf(cell.ParentNode);

Best regards.

5

Fantastic - that works a treat, thanks. Can you tell me if I can do the same thing with Column numbers though? I need to be able to find out which row and column a cell belongs to. Using your previous example, I can now find the row number, but am not sure how to find the column number. Thanks again for your help

6

Hi
Try to use the following code snippet.

foreach (Cell cell in cells)
{
    int index = doc.FirstSection.Body.Tables[0].Rows.IndexOf(cell.ParentNode);
    int index2 = doc.FirstSection.Body.Tables[0].Rows[index].Cells.IndexOf(cell);
    builder.MoveTo(cell.FirstParagraph);
    builder.Write(String.Format("{0};{1}", index2.ToString(), index.ToString()));
}

Best regards.