To create a table with 2 columns in the first row and 5 in the next in Word, you create a table and then merge the cells in the first row. Since the example "word2000demo.c" is built on ActiveX, we must go about creating the table programmatically the same way:
1) Create the table.
2) Select the cells to merge.
3) Merge the cells.
To do this, code must be added to the AddTableToDoc function, after the table has been created. We then get references to the cells to merge with the Word_TableCell(table handle, error info, row index, column index, return) function, and then merge the cells with Word_CellMerge(cell handle, error info, merge to). It looks like this:
Word_TableCell (resultsTableHandle, NULL, 2, 1, &cellHandle1);
Word_TableCell (resultsTableHandle, NULL, 2, 2, &cellHandle2);
Word_CellMerge(cellHandle1,NULL,cellHandle2);
Note that you must declare the cell handles at the top of the block, and the indices of the table are not zero-indexed. You would write empty strings into the cells that will be lost in the merge. Additional documentation on the functions used above can be found at the Word Object Model Reference.
To convert integers into strings, you can use the sprintf() method, which is documented in CVI. Then, you will write all five columns as string data as the function expects.
Regards,
Jen W.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
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