Convert A Table To Text In Word 2007
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Word includes a function that lets you convert table into text format. Once you create a document, you may decide that text currently in a table would be better presented in a different format such as a bulleted or numbered list. If this is the case, you can tell Word to put the table into text for you.
To convert a table into text:
- Select the rows or the table you want to convert to text.
- Under Table Tools, on the Layout tab, within the Data group, click Convert to Text.
- Under Separate text at, click the option for the separator character that you want to use in place of the column boundaries.
Word will automatically convert the rows or table into text.
4 Comments
E Bogue
September 21st, 2008
at 1:51pm
This is true. However, it will only change one table at a time, unlike Word 2003. Textbook publishers send software that creates exams with their textbooks - but it puts out badly formatted tests where each question is one table and each set of answers is a separate table. A 50 question test has 100 tables. It’s awfully darn tedious to be forced to convert them one by one!
Doug Zapf
October 10th, 2008
at 9:21pm
I agree with E. Bogue. Converting a document with multiple tables one table at a time is very time consuming. Is there a way in Word 2007 to convert all tables in a document all at once?
M Lynch
October 30th, 2008
at 11:16am
Here is a way I found to do this. It may not be the best, but it works. I had the document in Word with 100+ tables. I saved it as a plain text .txt file. Then opened it in Notepad, copies it, and pasted it back into Word. Voila! No tables. I hope this helps.
Mark.
Alison
November 2nd, 2008
at 9:01am
Doug, Did you ever find an answer to your question? I am having the same issue and it’s driving me crazy!