When you show formatting symbols (click ΒΆ), do you see row/cell markers or do
you see tabs? If you see the row cell markers, it is a table. Check that the
wrap is set to none (table options tab). Then check to see if you have
just one table. If fixing the wrap or joining the tables doesn't solve ythe
problem, or if it is a tab-based table, try pasting the whole thing into
Excel, cleaning it up there, and then moving it back to Word.
Or recopy it from the internet into Excel, which, in versions of Office
before 2007, was better at importing data into a table format than Word.
Depending on how the web page was coded, you may have to try insert file,
paste, and paste special to see which comes across best (best being displayed
in columns and rows like the original). Even if it comes across as all one
column, parsing it (text to columns) in Excel gives good results for simple
tables.
PamC
doonboggle wrote:
I have copied (off of the internet) 55 pages of html (??) data that was
presented in a table format. In copying and then pasting into Word, the page
to page 'tables' do not line up in the columns. In addition, when pulling my
insertion mouse across the lines of these columns, they do not indicate any
of the Word table re-adjust marker; so they are not actually tables as we
know from using Word tables.
I have test tried to 'Convert' this internet 'table' into a workable Word
table; unsuccessfully. Have also tried by converting a section of the
'table', once selected rows were highlited, to text ... and then back to Word
table ... unsuccessfully.
How can I combine these 55 pages of internet 'tables' into a useful Word
table format so that I can sort, etc.? There are 14 columns ... and several
hundred rows.
Thank you.
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