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
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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.

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Pat Dools