Finding content controls within Word table cells

Question

I am basically looping through all the cells within all the tables of a given Word document. I want to be able to identify cells that contain ContentControlls. Is this possible?

At least in terms of text length, cells with only ContentControls appear to be empty (other than the normal two cell end characters)

What about: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/word.range.contentcontrols#:~:text=Returns%20a%20ContentControls%20collection%20that%20represents%20the%20content%20controls%20contained%20within%20a%20range — Tim Williams, Jul 27 '23 at 22:34

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 27 '23 at 23:00

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For example:

Dim c As Cell

Set c = ActiveDocument.tables(1).Cell(3,3)
Debug.Print c.Range.ContentControls.Count

answered Jul 27 '23 at 23:00

Tim Williams

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Thank you! I have worked a lot with VBA in Excel but this is my first VBA Word project. Your answer also helped on a separate issue. – Richard E Olmstead Jul 28 '23 at 02:45

Finding content controls within Word table cells

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