On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:03:48 -0500, Jay Freedman
wrote:

Yes, you can do this.

Open the Tools Customize dialog. If you want to make a new separate
toolbar for this, go to the Toolbars tab and click the New button.

While the dialog is still open, click the Table menu and click the
Convert item to expand it. Hold the Ctrl key while you drag the
Convert Text To Table item from the menu to any toolbar. (Normally I'd
tell you to drag the command from the Commands tab of the Customize
dialog to a toolbar, but for some reason it isn't there. Neither is
its sibling, Convert Table To Text.)

YES!! Glory be, but that's beautiful! I'm saving this message to a
text file to save to the floppies that I carry around with me from
work contract to work contract. Can't tell you how many times I've
created a macro to do that a pulldown item will do but that doesn't
appear in the commands tab in the toolbar customize! g

Thanks so much, that's exactly what I needed _without_ creating a
macro then a icon sigh, something I've become quite adept at in the
last few years! vbg

Cheers!

If you want to replace the text on the new button with an icon,
right-click it and select Change Button Image. Pick an icon, then
click Default Style.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:34:44 -0500, StargateFan
wrote:

I couldn't seem to find a toolbar icon to do this. I have a big job,
similar to others, where I need to take a whole bunch of paragraphs
and to turn them into tables before putting into an Excel spreadsheet.
By making into a table first, the data "conversion" has been reliable,
unlike just copy/pasting (bunch of errors this way, whereas table text
no).

Also, since the categories change so much between paragraphs, no way
to speed the process up but, at least, if I could automate the
function of converting bits of text to tables so I wouldn't have to
use the pulldowns, that would save a lot of grief.

Is there any toolbar option, or does anyone know the VB coding that
would do the same thing?

Thanks!