>Hi everyone:
>I'm trying to automate entry into a table in Word using a VFP project. I have no problem entering values into the correct cell in a table, but entering a symbol is giving me an error. I can either enter the symbol at the beginning of a range (in which the range is the word document), or if i try to be more specific, i get the following error:
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> "ole dispatch exception code 0 from Microsoft Word: This method or property is not available because the object does not refer to simple range or selection..."
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>BTW, i am using MS word 97. What i want to do is insert a symbol (an arrow pointing upwards) in a specific cell in a table. here is the code that puts the arrow at the beginning of the page:
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> oRange.insertsymbol(-3923,"symbol",.t.)
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>Remember, oRange is the entire document.
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>When I try to put it into a table (namely oTable)), my code is as follows:
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> oTable.Cell[2,6].range.insertsymbol(-3921,"symbol",.t.)
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>I get the above error message when I use this code. Does anyone have any advice? BTW, I have found the book MS office Automation with Visual Foxpro to be a very handy reference for my coding. Unfortunately, it doesn't have an answer to this specific problem. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
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>TIA,
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>Paul

Paul,
Use selection and collapse before inserting. ie:

#DEFINE wdCollapseStart	1	
#DEFINE wdCollapseEnd	0	
oWord = CreateObject('Word.Application')
With oWord
	.Documents.Add
	oTable = .ActiveDocument.tables.add(.ActiveDocument.Content,3,8)
	oTable.Cell(1,3).Select
	.Selection.Collapse(wdCollapseStart)
	.Selection.InsertSymbol(9675,'',.t. )
	.Selection.TypeText(' Yes'+Chr(13))
	.Selection.InsertSymbol(9675,'',.t. )
	.Selection.TypeText(' No'+Chr(13))
	.Selection.InsertSymbol(9675,'',.t. )
	.Selection.TypeText(' Maybe')
	oTable.Cell(2,6).Select
	.Selection.Collapse(wdCollapseStart)
	.Selection.InsertSymbol(-3921,"symbol",.t.)
	oTable.Cell(1,1).Select
	.Selection.Collapse(wdCollapseStart)
	.Visible = .t.
	.Activate
endwith

PS: This would do too:

oRange = oTable.Cell(2,6).Range
oRange.Collapse(wdCollapseStart)
oRange.InsertSymbol(-3921,"symbol",.t.)

Cetin