Lets say there are several exactly looking tables in the document and I need data from a specific one of them. I don't know the text inside the table (thats what I'm after) so I can't itererate through all tables and cells and look for the right one. But, I do know exact text before it (it's the name of the section).

How can I select the table I need or figure out which table index (number for ActiveDocument->Tables(#) in the code below)?

use v5.10;
use strict;
use warnings;

use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word';
$Win32::OLE::Warn = 3; # die on errors...

my $Word = Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application', 'Quit');
   $Word->{'Visible'} = 1;

my $document = $Word->Documents->Open('D:\path\tmp.doc');
say "Could not open doc:". Win32::OLE->LastError() if !$document ;

say $Word->ActiveDocument->Tables->Count;

my $x = $Word->ActiveDocument->Tables(5)->Cell(2,1)->Range->Text;
say $x;

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In reply to Finding the right table in MS Word document [Win32::OLE] by flamey

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