Thanks for that. I was just concerned by the various exhortations to not use the low-level interface that I might have missed a high-level feature :)

So having got my element, and it's table-cell parent, I have a similar type of question. Is there some method to find the row and column number of the cell (I can't see any), or do I have to iterate through all the cells keeping track of the indices?

Thanks again, Dave