[miraccav]

how can I convert a Word document consisting mostly of tables into an Excel
format?

[Jean-Guy Marcil[_2_]]

"miraccav" wrote:

how can I convert a Word document consisting mostly of tables into an Excel
format?

You can try pasting the content of the Word document in Excel. If the
document is well structured and there are no merged cells in your tables, it
should be OK.

But to be safe, you should paste each table one by one and see what Excel
does with each table.

[Jay Freedman]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:12:02 -0800, miraccav
wrote:

how can I convert a Word document consisting mostly of tables into an Excel
format?

You can select an entire Word table (click in the table, then Table Select
Table, or click the little square with four arrowheads that appears at the top
left corner), copy it to the clipboard, and paste it into Excel. It will
automatically be separated into cells.

Non-table material doesn't behave so nicely -- it just drops into a single cell.

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[Beth Melton]

Although if the content contains common delimiters, such as a tab or
paragraph mark, it will separate the data.

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"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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Non-table material doesn't behave so nicely -- it just drops into a single
cell.