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Welcome to the Word 2013 developer reference
Object model reference (Word 2013 developer reference)
Selection Object (Word)
Properties
Selection.Active Property (Word)
Selection.Application Property (Word)
Selection.BookmarkID Property (Word)
Selection.Bookmarks Property (Word)
Selection.Borders Property (Word)
Selection.Cells Property (Word)
Selection.Characters Property (Word)
Selection.ChildShapeRange Property (Word)
Selection.Columns Property (Word)
Selection.ColumnSelectMode Property (Word)
Selection.Comments Property (Word)
Selection.Creator Property (Word)
Selection.Document Property (Word)
Selection.Editors Property (Word)
Selection.End Property (Word)
Selection.EndnoteOptions Property (Word)
Selection.Endnotes Property (Word)
Selection.EnhMetaFileBits Property (Word)
Selection.ExtendMode Property (Word)
Selection.Fields Property (Word)
Selection.Find Property (Word)
Selection.FitTextWidth Property (Word)
Selection.Flags Property (Word)
Selection.Font Property (Word)
Selection.FootnoteOptions Property (Word)
Selection.Footnotes Property (Word)
Selection.FormattedText Property (Word)
Selection.FormFields Property (Word)
Selection.Frames Property (Word)
Selection.HasChildShapeRange Property (Word)
Selection.HeaderFooter Property (Word)
Selection.HTMLDivisions Property (Word)
Selection.Hyperlinks Property (Word)
Selection.Information Property (Word)
Selection.InlineShapes Property (Word)
Selection.IPAtEndOfLine Property (Word)
Selection.IsEndOfRowMark Property (Word)
Selection.LanguageDetected Property (Word)
Selection.LanguageID Property (Word)
Selection.LanguageIDFarEast Property (Word)
Selection.LanguageIDOther Property (Word)
Selection.NoProofing Property (Word)
Selection.OMaths Property (Word)
Selection.Orientation Property (Word)
Selection.PageSetup Property (Word)
Selection.ParagraphFormat Property (Word)
Selection.Paragraphs Property (Word)
Selection.Parent Property (Word)
Selection.PreviousBookmarkID Property (Word)
Selection.Range Property (Word)
Selection.Rows Property (Word)
Selection.Sections Property (Word)
Selection.Sentences Property (Word)
Selection.Shading Property (Word)
Selection.ShapeRange Property (Word)
Selection.Start Property (Word)
Selection.StartIsActive Property (Word)
Selection.StoryLength Property (Word)
Selection.StoryType Property (Word)
Selection.Style Property (Word)
Selection.Tables Property (Word)
Selection.Text Property (Word)
Selection.TopLevelTables Property (Word)
Selection.Type Property (Word)
Selection.WordOpenXML Property (Word)
Selection.Words Property (Word)
Selection.XML Property (Word)
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Selection.Cells Property (Word)

Office 2013

Returns a Cells collection that represents the table cells in a selection. Read-only.

expression .Cells

expression A variable that represents a Selection object.

For information about returning a single member of a collection, see Returning an Object from a Collection.

This example sets the current cell's background color to red.

VBA
Copy 
If Selection.Information(wdWithInTable) = True Then 
 Selection.Cells(1).Shading.BackgroundPatternColorIndex = wdRed 
Else 
 MsgBox "The insertion point is not in a table." 
End If
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