Thanks 'bel!
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Australia

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"Jezebel" wrote in message
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You need to make a distinction between nesting and anchoring. I don't know
the detailed answer to this -- you'll need to do some experimenting, I
guess.

You can work out where textboxes are anchored by looking at the shape's
Anchor property -- this is a reference to the range (ie paragraph) to
which
the shape is attached -- you can then check that Range's Information()
property to work out if you are anchored to a paragraph within a table.

Not sure what's the most efficient way to pick if a table is within a
textbox. For one thing, tables in textboxes are not members of the
ActiveDocument.Tables collection, so simply iterating the tables
collection
won't encounter them anyway. To find tables within textboxes you could
iterate the activedocument.StoryRanges(wdTextFrameStory).Table s
collection.
Does that help?

Perhaps for your purpose, dealing with the distinct StoryRanges as
separate
entities might be the best approach.





"Pat Garard" apgarardATbigpondPERIODnetPERIODau wrote in message
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Wow Jezebel!

I can nest a Table OR a Text Box into a Table.
I can nest a Table into a Text Box (but that
table may not then contain another Text Box).

I need to be able to detect all such nestings.
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Australia

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"Jezebel" wrote in message
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Thank you! - Any ideas on Text Boxes?
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Pat, this question is a tad cryptic. I have lots of ideas on Text
Boxes;
most of them obscure, unprintable, and of extremely dubious relevance
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Textboxes can't be nested (in W2000, anyway). They may overlap -- so
that
graphically they have the appearance of nesting -- but the range to
which
a
textbox is anchored must be part of the MainStory or a Header/Footer.
You
can't anchor a textbox to a paragraph within a textbox.