Thank you for your help. Right now I am saving the tables as separate
templates and then cutting and pasting the data in the rows (as long as they
are equal it works). I am just hoping there was something more efficient.



"Jezebel" wrote:

Can't think of an easy way off-hand, but I'll ponder.

If it were me, I'd also be saying very rude things to your quality people --
the method you're currently using is MUCH more prone to error than using
Excel would be.

As the saying has it: "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Failing
that, become a quality consultant."




"Pat Dools" wrote in message
...
Due to quality control constraints I am not permitted to use excel at all,
which is making this a challenge.

What I need to do:

I have about 40 different tables, each with different formatting. Every
month I will get data that needs to go into each of these separate 40
tables
. The data from the old table will have to be deleted and the new data
will
need to go in.

Rather than reconstruct the whole table, I would love to save the shell
(headers/spacing) and just bring in the new data, since the formatting has
to
be really specific.

The statistician will send me a word doc with the data in a comma
delimited
format. Is there anyway to put this data into a table without having to
reformat the table each time?

Many thanks.


"Jezebel" wrote:

Hard to be precise without knowing more about what you need to end up
with,
but you might be better using Excel rather than Word, at least initially.
Excel can read csv data directly, so if you have a spreadsheet set up
with
the columns formatted as you need them, most of the tabulation formatting
can happen automatically.

You can embed the Excel tables in a Word document, if you need to dress
them
up further.




"Pat Dools" wrote in message
...
I have data from a statistician that needs to be put in specifically
formatted tables. She usually sends me that data in a word document,
csv
style and I need to rework that data into a table. Since we might run
and
rerun the data several times over the course of the month and the
specific
formatting for each table is pretty specific, I was wondering if
there
is
anyway to set all of the tables structure and then import the data into
the
body of the tables. My thoughts we to create a template, but I am
not
sure
if that is the way to go.

I am not sure exactly where to post this, or if this can be done.
Thanks
for any guidance you can give me.

--
Pat Dools