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June 30, 2010 at 11:13 pm #53282
Theunis De Jong
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Does this make it work?

if (myDocument.textFrames[i].tables[j].rows[k].cells[l].contents.length > 0)

The 'contents' property of a cell is not guaranteed to be a string — it can also be a single special character or nothing at all (not even an empty string).

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