Field to count table rows?

[Ed]

I'm writing several reports, each containing several tables that will expand
or contract as those-who-know-everything change their collective
half-a-mind! Each table has a preceeding paragraph saying "The follow table
contains details of <QTY HERE> incidents." I'm wondering if there is a
field or formula I can insert at <QTY HERE> that will keep track of how many
data rows each table has, so as I add or delete rows the total will show and
I won't have to recount every table?

Ed

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I suspect there's a way to access this via VBA and perhaps write it to a
custom document property, which could then be inserted in the document using
a DocProperty field. But if you just need help counting the rows (the
VBA-less solution), you can get the TableCellHelper macro available from
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/SumAboveIncorrect.htm, which returns
the number of rows and columns in a table and the address of the current
cell.

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[Ed]

Thank you, Suzanne. I'm sure I can make this work for me.

Ed