Copying tables from Word to Excel-VBA - vba

Question

I am trying to copy multiple tables from a Microsoft Word Doc to Excel. The code is unable to find any tables in the word document which I think is due to the fact that the tables are located near the center of the page of each document and not near the top. Does anyone know how I can modify the code so I can successfully copy the tables?
I have tried using for loops instead of tableNo = wdDoc.Tables.Count but have had no success.
The code I have tried is from a previous thread which has been successful when the tables are located near the top of each page of the word document.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/9406983/7282657

Answer 1

This worked for me with your sample document. Likely there may be other scenarios where it might not work...
Sub ImportWordTable()
Dim wdDoc As Object
Dim wdFileName As Variant
Dim tableNo As Integer 'table number in Word
Dim iRow As Long 'row index in Excel
Dim iCol As Integer 'column index in Excel
Dim resultRow As Long
Dim tableStart As Integer
Dim tableTot As Integer
Dim allTables As Collection '<<
On Error Resume Next
ActiveSheet.Range("A:AZ").ClearContents
wdFileName = Application.GetOpenFilename("Word files (*.doc),*.doc", , _
"Browse for file containing table to be imported")
If wdFileName = False Then Exit Sub '(user cancelled import file browser)
Set wdDoc = GetObject(wdFileName) 'open Word file
Set allTables = GetTables(wdDoc) '<<< see function below
tableNo = allTables.Count
tableTot = allTables.Count
If tableNo = 0 Then
MsgBox "This document contains no tables", _
vbExclamation, "Import Word Table"
ElseIf tableNo > 1 Then
tableNo = InputBox("This Word document contains " & tableNo & " tables." & vbCrLf & _
"Enter the table to start from", "Import Word Table", "1")
End If
resultRow = 4
For tableStart = 1 To tableTot
With allTables(tableStart)
'copy cell contents from Word table cells to Excel cells
For iRow = 1 To .Rows.Count
For iCol = 1 To .Columns.Count
Cells(resultRow, iCol) = WorksheetFunction.Clean(.cell(iRow, iCol).Range.Text)
Next iCol
resultRow = resultRow + 1
Next iRow
End With
resultRow = resultRow + 1
Next tableStart
End Sub
'extract all tables from Word doc into a collection
Function GetTables(doc As Object) As Collection
Dim shp As Object, i, tbls As Object
Dim tbl As Object
Dim rv As New Collection
'find tables directly in document
For Each tbl In doc.Tables
rv.Add tbl
Next tbl
'find tables hosted in shapes
For i = 1 To doc.Shapes.Count
On Error Resume Next
Set tbls = doc.Shapes(i).TextFrame.TextRange.Tables
On Error GoTo 0
If Not tbls Is Nothing Then
For Each tbl In tbls
rv.Add tbl
Next tbl
End If
Next i
Set GetTables = rv
End Function