Word macro to delete identical rows in a docClosed

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Hello everyone, I hope someone is able to help me. Every day I work with an RTF export from non-Microsoft software, which is a Word-like document set out with multiple tables in the style of 2 "newspaper columns" per page. I would open this file in Word 2003.

Unfortunately, a lot of the table rows are redundant (see below description) and it would be really convenient if there was a quick way to delete them all, seeing as these RTF exports can go on for about a hundred pages (which is why I decided not to delete them all by hand).

The rows that need to be deleted are of the form: Blank cell, Blank cell, Blank cell with a tab in it, Cell containing three characters: a space, then a zero, then another space. i.e. with the backwards-P symbol on it's [][][tab arrow][sp 0 sp]

On my first try at macros, I was able to delete just one row like that. However, it won't delete any other rows like that. And finally, because I've got multiple tables all with the same problem, I would dearly like to be able to delete those rows in other, separate, tables in that same document.

Thank you in advance for any help.

dmr316 · Accepted Answer

I have found some macros on the internet which may help:

This macro finds each table in turn:
   Sub FindTables()
      Dim iResponse As Integer
      Dim tTable As Table
      'If any tables exist, loop through each table in collection.
      For Each tTable In ActiveDocument.Tables
         tTable.Select
         iResponse = MsgBox("Table found. Find next?", 68)
         If response = vbNo Then Exit For 'User chose to leave search.
      Next
      MsgBox prompt:="Search Complete.", buttons:=vbInformation
   End Sub

This macro deletes any rows with a blank cell in the first column:
Sub DeleteRows() 
  Dim TargetText As String 
  Dim oRow As Row 
  If Selection.Information(wdWithInTable) = False Then Exit Sub 
  TargetText = InputBox$("Enter target text:", "Delete Rows") 
  For Each oRow In Selection.Tables(1).Rows 
    If oRow.Cells(1).Range.Text = TargetText & vbCr & Chr(7) Then oRow.Delete 
  Next oRow 
End Sub 

If anyone could modify the second macro to delete any rows with a blank cell in the third column and then nest it within the first macro to enable multiple tables to be amended, I'm sure that would solve my problem. I wish I was better at VBA to be able to do this for myself.

Thanks in advance if anyone can combine those for me with that slight change to the second macro.

VTTP · Answer

Sub FindTables()
Dim iResponse As Integer
Dim tTable As Table
Dim TargetText As String
Dim oRow As Row

    TargetText = InputBox("Enter target text:", "Delete Rows") 'Place this code between the lines with the For 
    Each statement to enter different target text for different tables

    For Each tTable In ActiveDocument.Tables
        For Each oRow In tTable.Rows
            If oRow.Cells(2).Range.Text = TargetText & vbCr & Chr(7) Then oRow.Delete
        Next oRow
    Next tTable

End Sub

Word macro to delete identical rows in a doc

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