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Converting a table to text

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Converting a table to text

We learned in an earlier movie, if you have text already in a document, and it's lined up using tabs, maybe commas, or spaces, you can convert that into a nice looking table to make it more pleasing to the eye, for example. Well, the exact opposite is true as well. If you have a table, and you prefer it to be standard text, you can convert tables back to text as well. That's what we are going to do with our Asparagus file here on Page 1. If you need to get caught up, because you have jumped to this lesson, just open up Asparagus8. We're going to click anywhere in the table, and we're going to select it by going to the top left corner, and clicking the four arrowed icon. With our table selected, we can now convert it, because we have access to the Layout tab under Table Tools here on the ribbon. Give it a click, and go to the data section, where you'll find Convert to Text. Clicking this opens up a dialog box, and here we get to choose how we're going to separate our columns. Do we…

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