Microsoft Word For Mac Convert Table To Text
At some point, you may surrender the notion of needing a table in Word 2016 and desire the text to be freed from the table’s confines. To perform such a jailbreak, you convert the table back into plain text or even tab-formatted text. Obey these steps:
Jul 04, 2013 Have you entered some text in columns separated by tabs and you want to convert it to a table? Word provides a useful feature that allows you to quickly convert text to a table and a table to text. You can convert text separated by a specific character, such as a tab, into a table. Select the rows or table you want to convert to text. Under Table Tools, on the Layout tab, click Convert to Text. In the Convert to Text box, under Separate text with, click the separator character you want to use in place of the column boundaries. Rows will be separated by paragraph marks.
Click inside the table you want to convert.
Don’t select anything — just click the mouse.
Click the Table Tools Layout tab.
From the Table group, choose Select→Select Table.
From the Data group, choose Convert to Text.
The Convert to Text dialog box appears. It guesses how you want the table converted, such as using tabs or paragraphs.
Click OK.
Bye-bye, table. Hello, ugly text.
By Dan Gookin. At some point, you may surrender the notion of needing a table in Word 2016 and desire the text to be freed from the table’s confines. To perform such a jailbreak, you convert the table back into plain text or even tab-formatted text. After its release, Word for Mac OS's sales were higher than its MS-DOS counterpart for at least four years. The second release of Word for Mac OS, shipped in 1987, was named Word 3.0 to synchronize its version number with Word for DOS; this was Microsoft's first attempt. Microsoft Word Document. DOC is a file extension for word processing documents. It is associated mainly with Microsoft Word application. DOC files can also contain charts and tables, videos, images, sounds and diagrams. It supports almost all the Operating Systems.
Some post-table-destruction cleanup might be necessary, but generally the conversion goes well. The only issue you may have is when a cell contains multiple paragraphs of text. In that case, undo the operation (press Ctrl+Z) and choose Paragraph Marks from the Convert to Text dialog box (before Step 5).
-->Converts a table to text and returns a Range object that represents the delimited text.
Syntax
expression. ConvertToText( _Separator_ , _NestedTables_ )
expression Required. A variable that represents a 'Table' object.
Parameters
| Name | Required/Optional | Data type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Separator | Optional | Variant | The character that delimits the converted columns (paragraph marks delimit the converted rows). Can be any WdTableFieldSeparator constants. |
| NestedTables | Optional | Variant | True if nested tables are converted to text. This argument is ignored if Separator is not wdSeparateByParagraphs. The default value is True. |
Remarks
When you apply the ConvertToText method to a Table object, the object is deleted. To maintain a reference to the converted contents of the table, you must assign the Range object returned by the ConvertToText method to a new object variable. In the following example, the first table in the active document is converted to text and then formatted as a bulleted list.
Example
This example creates a table and then converts it to text by using tabs as separator characters.
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This example converts the table that contains the selection to text, with spaces between the columns.
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