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Convert Text to Table with Tabs
I have a row of text with a number followed by a dash and then a title of a
document with a paragraph mark at the end. I am trying to make: Column 1 as the number and Column 2 as the title. I have done a F&R to make the dash a tab. I then selected the text and selected Table/Convert/Text to Table. In the "Number of columns" section I chose "2". In the "Separate text at" I chose "Tabs". When the table generates there is only one column and not two. Can someone tell me why this is not working? Thanks. -- S |
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Convert Text to Table with Tabs
To: Sharon,
From your description, it appears that you're doing everything correctly. Have you double checked to see if the dash was actually converted to a tab character? Click on the Show/Hide icon, the tab should look like an arrow - It least when I try to reproduce your problem, if I don't have a tab character and yet in the "Number of columns" section I chose "2" and in the "Separate text at" I chose "Tabs". It creates a table with only one column. Steven Craig Miller "Sharon" wrote: I have a row of text with a number followed by a dash and then a title of a document with a paragraph mark at the end. I am trying to make: Column 1 as the number and Column 2 as the title. I have done a F&R to make the dash a tab. I then selected the text and selected Table/Convert/Text to Table. In the "Number of columns" section I chose "2". In the "Separate text at" I chose "Tabs". When the table generates there is only one column and not two. Can someone tell me why this is not working? Thanks. -- S |
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Convert Text to Table with Tabs
That was it exactly!!! Thanks so much.
-- S "StevenM" wrote: To: Sharon, From your description, it appears that you're doing everything correctly. Have you double checked to see if the dash was actually converted to a tab character? Click on the Show/Hide icon, the tab should look like an arrow - It least when I try to reproduce your problem, if I don't have a tab character and yet in the "Number of columns" section I chose "2" and in the "Separate text at" I chose "Tabs". It creates a table with only one column. Steven Craig Miller "Sharon" wrote: I have a row of text with a number followed by a dash and then a title of a document with a paragraph mark at the end. I am trying to make: Column 1 as the number and Column 2 as the title. I have done a F&R to make the dash a tab. I then selected the text and selected Table/Convert/Text to Table. In the "Number of columns" section I chose "2". In the "Separate text at" I chose "Tabs". When the table generates there is only one column and not two. Can someone tell me why this is not working? Thanks. -- S |
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Convert Text to Table with Tabs
Actually, when I went back to the document and tried to do this table over,
it wouldn't work. I tried the above suggestion but it still wouldn't work. Figured out that the items were hyperlinks and the convert function would not work. When I removed the hyperlink, the table formatted perfectly. -- S "Sharon" wrote: That was it exactly!!! Thanks so much. -- S "StevenM" wrote: To: Sharon, From your description, it appears that you're doing everything correctly. Have you double checked to see if the dash was actually converted to a tab character? Click on the Show/Hide icon, the tab should look like an arrow - It least when I try to reproduce your problem, if I don't have a tab character and yet in the "Number of columns" section I chose "2" and in the "Separate text at" I chose "Tabs". It creates a table with only one column. Steven Craig Miller "Sharon" wrote: I have a row of text with a number followed by a dash and then a title of a document with a paragraph mark at the end. I am trying to make: Column 1 as the number and Column 2 as the title. I have done a F&R to make the dash a tab. I then selected the text and selected Table/Convert/Text to Table. In the "Number of columns" section I chose "2". In the "Separate text at" I chose "Tabs". When the table generates there is only one column and not two. Can someone tell me why this is not working? Thanks. -- S |
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