Thank you. I figured it out, but there is
one annoying problem.
The table I have scanned from the book fills
the page in an up/down mode thought there is
still only two columns to the table.
Access2003 thinks that there are as many
fields as there are columns on the page.
How do I fix this? The scan comes out as a
RTF table in Word2003 with many columns, so
how do I get an only-two column table from
many? Cutting the extra columns and trying
to paste them to the first two does not work.
Regards, Frank
"Cindy M." wrote in
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Hi Frank,
I have Word/Access2003.
With a scanner I have successfully
converted
a table in a book into a table in
Word2003.
I want to transfer this Word2003 table
into a
table in Access2003.
Select the table. Table/Convert/Table to
Text. Save as a
plain text file (make sure there's nothing
else in the
document!). The result will be a standard
delimited text
file which Access should be able to import.
Caveat: if the table cells contain
paragraph marks you'll
need to remove them (or replace them with
something else)
before converting to text. The record
delimiter is a
paragraph and you can't change that.
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister
(last update
Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org
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