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Converting a Table to Text in Word
| Now that we have a nice, neat table (See
the tutorial "Converting Text to a Table") with our
imaginary statistics all lined up, it's time to change them back to text…but
it may not look like you are thinking it will. When we convert our table
to text, it will not be our original comma-separated values. Instead, it
will be text in a tabular form. Here we go! |
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| Select the entire table. You can do this by
dragging your cursor over the table, or by going again to the menu bar,
clicking on "Table" and then scroll down to "select
table". I prefer this method as I am sure to get the entire
table. Once you have selected the entire table, go again the "Table"
menu and scroll down to "convert table to text". |
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You will get another formatting dialog box, this time asking how you
wish to separate the values. "Tab" is selected by
default, so just click "OK". Your table will be converted
into a tabbed format, nicely and evenly spaced. |
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You might want to try out the other formatting
options to see what they look like. Each one might fit a different need
that you have. That's all for now on converting text to tables and vice
versa, but don't close your Word document yet! It will come in handy for
the tip, "Right Down the Middle".
It is really a neat trick....
Using this lesson and the lesson on changing text into a table can actually
save you some time if the information you have to work with in your
Word document is separated by commas:
- Select the text;
- Change to a table;
- Change the table into tabbed format! No trying to figure out even
tab stops! Yeah for our team (Bulldogs)!
Be sure to check out the "Right Down
the Middle in Word" tutorial to find out how to select just
one column of your document! You won't believe your eyes! |
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