Mellisa,

Select the text. Using menu TableConver. Select text to table.

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melissa wrote:
I am having trouble drawing a table around some pre existing text in a
document i created in Word. Every time i try, the text gets moved down
underneath the table. I actually want to incorporate the text into
the table.