[Jay Freedman]

Hint: With the cursor in the Other box, press Ctrl+V to paste the
clipboard content. (Lots of people think they have to use a toolbar
button or a menu entry to paste, and those aren't available in a
dialog. The keyboard shortcut works almost everywhere.)

On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 08:57:47 +1000, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP"
wrote:

You could try copying and pasting one of the "line connectors" into the
Other space

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

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On Jun 2, 4:26 pm, "Jay Freedman" wrote:
Select the tabular structure and click Table Convert Text to Table
(or
in Word 2007, Insert Table Convert Text to Table).

Before you can get this to work properly, you may have to do some cleanup
to
remove some of the line-drawing characters, especially those that make
the
corners and the horizontal lines. Instead of removing the vertical lines
between the columns, use those as the "separator characters" in the
conversion dialog.

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

Thanks for the suggestion.

How do I use the vertical lines between the columns as "separator
characters"? In Word 2007, I choose Insert - Table - Convert Text to
Table, in that at Separate Text as option, I can enter some
information for Other, but what do I enter for the vertical lines
which are actually line connectors? Do I enter their ASCII code
value(i don't know how to find their ASCII code value) or something
else?

Can you please clarify?

Thanks