Thank you, no I missed that somehow - on it!

Results:
post #2 macro - didn't work I'm afraid :/
post #5 macro - it's working - there's some formatting deviations (from the user that created the document, the sort of user that just uses the space bar to align things as they don't know how to use formatting, I'm sure you know the type) which are making it stutter, but thanks to your macro trying to fix it before resulting in an error, I am now able to much more easily spot the problematic tables.

You have saved me a lot of manual laboring - thank you!!

I don't supposed you could suggest a good resource where I could start to learn to use word macros from scratch?

Best wishes,
emblaw