Hello All

I am automating the "magazine run" process for a Classic Car club, this involves creating renewal letters in which I include in the letter all the cars that each member owns. I do this via a "catalog" mail merge in word which I control through a Perl script. Adding the cars into a table in this method creates a small one-line table for each car added in the mail merge. When finished, I need to run a "TableJoiner" macro so that all of these individual tables are joined up into one. I found this macro on the internet from a very helpful tutorial on the "catalog" mail merge, it works superbly and it looks like this:

Sub TableJoiner()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim oPara As Paragraph
For Each oPara In ActiveDocument.Paragraphs
  With oPara.Range
    If .Information(wdWithInTable) = True Then
      With .Next
        If .Information(wdWithInTable) = False Then
          If .Text = vbCr Then .Delete
        End If
      End With
    End If
  End With
Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

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I want to turn this into Perl OLE script so that I can run it on any PC without installing the macro into MS-Word first. Can anyone help me with this please? I have got as far as this: 

foreach my $oPara (%{$Word->ActiveDocument->Paragraphs})
{
    if ($oPara->Range->Information(wdWithInTable))
    {
        if ($oPara->Next->Information(wdWithInTable) eq False)
        {
            if ($oPara->Next->Text eq "\r")        #vbCr
            {
                logoutput("Deleting Line\n");
                $oPara->Range->Next->Delete;
            }
        }
    }
}

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I did start the foreach loop with: 

foreach my $oPara ($Word->ActiveDocument->Paragraphs)

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But I thought I needed to 'persuade' perl that it was a hash. Any help you can give me would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

In reply to MS-Word OLE and Joining Tables by BrianP6

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