Tables are a great way to present many types of information. In fact, I've seen some documents that consist almost entirely of tables. If you do a lot of work with tables, you may (at some point) want to copy all the tables from one document to a brand new document. This could be helpful if you have tabular information that needs to be available in the new document, but you don't need the rest of the information from the original document.
The easiest way to do this type of copying is by using a macro. Fortunately, all the tables in a document are made available to VBA through the Tables collection. That means you can step through each item in the collection (each item will be an individual table) and then copy it.
Sub CopyTables()
Dim Source As Document
Dim Target As Document
Dim tbl As Table
Dim tr As Range
Set Source = ActiveDocument
Set Target = Documents.Add
For Each tbl In Source.Tables
Set tr = Target.Range
tr.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
tr.FormattedText = tbl.Range.FormattedText
tr.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
tr.Text = vbCrLf
Next
End Sub
The macro, once run, creates a brand new document (Target) and copies the tables from the original document (Source) into the new one. (The source document is whatever document was active when you ran the macro.) The macro places a blank line between each table in the Target document. If you don't want the blank line, then remove or comment out the line just before the Next statement.
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2016-03-02 17:07:10
Dennus
Thanks for the help. It saved me a lot of time.
2016-01-28 04:49:55
Richard
Hello Allen
This macro is really helping me with a report I need to do for a project. The report consists of tables and associated sales text and is given to a customer.
Afterwards the tables will be used by another department who do not need the text so this helps me give them just that.
However is there an amendment i can make to change the target from a new blank word document to an existing world file (which would have a title and formatting in place).
I have tried replacing 'Documents.Add' with 'tmpName = ActiveDocument.AttachedTemplate.FullName
Documents.Add Template:=tmpName, NewTemplate:=True' but I don't think I am adding it in correctly are you able to explain how I could add this function?
Many Thanks
Richard
2014-12-16 23:41:12
Ram Ashish
Hello Allen
It is very useful macro but it copying tables only.It will be great if it copying table title and note and source.
thanks and regards
Ram Ashish
2014-12-15 09:05:33
Philip Ulanowsky
Hello, Allen, and Christmas greetings to you and your family.
I really like the idea of copying all the tables to another document. In my proposal work, I sometimes end up copying tables from a source document, into which someone has just cut-and- pasted them from who knows where; placing them in a black doc for style stripping (Clear all, Ctrl w/space and Q, and Alt+Ctrl_u); then pasting them into the target and applying a custom table style.
As you know, Word tables, especially very long ones, can carry with them all (and can even disable application of custom styles from the QAT, as occasionally happens to me, sometimes even after stripping; who knows where Word's coding hides the key to that little gremlin!).
Your macro would be additionally useful, therefore, if, after copying all the tables to a new document, it would perform the stripping operations. This could be, perhaps, a separate macro, but a one-shot sweep would be great.
Best wishes,
Philip
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