Columns Collection Object

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A collection of Column objects that represent the columns in a table.

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Use the Columns property of a Range, Selection, or Table object to return a Columns collection. The following example displays the number of Column objects in the Columns collection for the first table in the active document.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  MsgBox ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Columns.Count

The following example creates a table with six columns and three rows and then formats each column with a progressively larger (darker) shading percentage.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Set myTable = ActiveDocument.Tables.Add(Range:=Selection.Range, _
    NumRows:=3, NumColumns:=6)
For Each col In myTable.Columns
    col.Shading.Texture = 2 + i
    i = i + 1
Next col

Use the Add method to add a column to a table. The following example adds a column to the first table in the active document, and then it makes the column widths equal.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  If ActiveDocument.Tables.Count >= 1 Then
    Set myTable = ActiveDocument.Tables(1)
    myTable.Columns.Add BeforeColumn:=myTable.Columns(1)
    myTable.Columns.DistributeWidth
End If

Use Columns(Index), where Index is the index number, to return a single Column object. The index number represents the position of the column in the Columns collection (counting from left to right). The following example selects the first column in the first table.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Columns(1).Select

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