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Default Edit text in a picture in Word (to be pasted into Excel)

Did you select the table before copying to the clipboard?
Which versions of Word/Excel are you using?
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ec17 wrote:
When I try paste special, I don't get HTML as an option to select,
rather: Picture (PNG)
Picture (JPEG)
Picture (GIF)
Picture (Enhanced metafile)
MS Office drawing object



"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Paste special html format will insert the table content as a
table.

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ec17 wrote:
I have a word document which contains tables of data. When I am
trying to copy the tables of data to Excel, I am right clicking the
mouse and it has options to copy a picture. So while the data
appears to be a MSWord table, it is actually a 'picture'.
I want to just grab the raw text, paste it in excel and start some
analysis. Any suggestions how I can edit the picture and get the raw
text into Excel?