How to Delete Rows and Columns from a Word Table in C#, VB.NET

Adding rows and columns are common tasks in Word table processing, on the contrary, sometimes we also have the requirement of deleting rows or columns from a table. This article demonstrates how to delete a row and a column from an existing Word table using Spire.Doc.

Below is the screenshot of the original table. Afterwards, we will remove the colored row and column from the table.

Detail steps:

Step 1: Instantiate a Document object and load the Word document.

Document doc = new Document();
doc.LoadFromFile("Sample.docx");

Step 2: Get the table from the document.

Table table = doc.Sections[0].Tables[0] as Table;

Step 3: Delete the third row from the table.

table.Rows.RemoveAt(2);

Step 4: Delete the third column from the table.

for (int i = 0; i < table.Rows.Count; i++)
{
    table.Rows[i].Cells.RemoveAt(2);
}

Step 5: Save the document.

doc.SaveToFile("result.docx",FileFormat.docx2013);

Output:

How to Delete Rows and Columns from a Word Table in C#, VB.NET

Full code:

[C#]

using Spire.Doc;

namespace Delete_Rows_and_Columns
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Document doc = new Document();
            doc.LoadFromFile("Sample.docx");
            Table table = doc.Sections[0].Tables[0] as Table;           
            table.Rows.RemoveAt(2);
            for (int i = 0; i < table.Rows.Count; i++)
            {
                table.Rows[i].Cells.RemoveAt(2);
            }
            doc.SaveToFile("result.docx",FileFormat.docx2013);
        }
    }
}

[VB.NET]

Imports Spire.Doc

Namespace Delete_Rows_and_Columns
	Class Program
		Private Shared Sub Main(args As String())
			Dim doc As New Document()
			doc.LoadFromFile("Sample.docx")
			Dim table As Table = TryCast(doc.Sections(0).Tables(0), Table)
			table.Rows.RemoveAt(2)
			For i As Integer = 0 To table.Rows.Count - 1
				table.Rows(i).Cells.RemoveAt(2)
			Next
			doc.SaveToFile("result.docx",FileFormat.docx2013);
		End Sub
	End Class
End Namespace

How to Delete Rows and Columns from a Word Table in C#, VB.NET

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