Columns Collection Method: Item 

Purpose

Retrieves a Column object from the Columns collection.

Syntax

The Item method has the syntax:

Item(vaWhichItem)

Description

The parameter vaWhichItem tells describes the element to be returned. The following variant data types for vaWhichItem are legal:

Type

Description

VT_BSTR, VT_LPCSTR, VT_LPWSTR

VT_BSTR *, VT_LPCST *, VT_LPWSTR *

The column with the name vaWhichItem is returned. If the name is undefined, vaWhichItem is converted to an integer value and used as an index into the collection.

Any type convertible to a VT_I4.

The parameter vaWhichItem is converted to an integer value and used as index into the collection.