[Mkate]

Hello,

I use a Word template with several toolbars. As part of our recent template
update, we created a Convert Text to Table and Convert Table to Text option
on the Toolbars. These new additions convert the text to the correct format
that we use for our proposals.

In regular Word a user can select text in a table and only that information
will convert to text€”not the whole table€”when the option is selected. In my
new template, the whole table changes even if only a portion of text is
selected or one row. The macro is paragraph delimited. The person who
developed the templates is no longer with us and I am now trying see if our
new Convert Text to Table can be modified to work like "regular" Word. I am
not a programmer so this is a bit of a "stretch" for me, but I am hoping that
the experts will have a solution.

Thank you as always for your help.
--
Mkate

[Jay Freedman]

Since you don't show any of the existing code, it's impossible to say how it
should be changed. However, the following code snippet does behave exactly
like the menu command, converting only the selected part of the table:

With Dialogs(wdDialogTableToText)
.ConvertTo = wdSeparateByParagraphs
.Execute
End With

In contrast, I suspect the existing code uses something like this:

Selection.Tables(1).ConvertToText Separator:=wdSeparateByParagraphs

which would convert the entire table.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
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Mkate wrote:
Hello,

I use a Word template with several toolbars. As part of our recent
template update, we created a Convert Text to Table and Convert Table
to Text option on the Toolbars. These new additions convert the text
to the correct format that we use for our proposals.

In regular Word a user can select text in a table and only that
information will convert to text-not the whole table-when the option
is selected. In my new template, the whole table changes even if only
a portion of text is selected or one row. The macro is paragraph
delimited. The person who developed the templates is no longer with
us and I am now trying see if our new Convert Text to Table can be
modified to work like "regular" Word. I am not a programmer so this
is a bit of a "stretch" for me, but I am hoping that the experts will
have a solution.

Thank you as always for your help.