The first thing that comes to my mind if you don't want to use your QLineEdit pointer, is that you can connect to the cell widget signals by using:
Qt Code: 
  1. connect(pTableWidget->cellWidget(row,col),SIGNAL(someSignal()),pObj,SLOT(someSlot()));
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but you can also just use the pointer to your QLineEdit.