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Converting a table to text
From the course: Word 2016 Essential Training
Converting a table to text
- Earlier in this chapter, we took a Word document that contained content separated with tabs so it looked like it was in columns, but it really wasn't, it was just separated using tab stops. Well, we wanted that to look a little bit nicer and thanks to converting it to a table and using table formatting we ended up with this. But of course, you can always do the reverse. If you wanted to turn your table into text, it's a simple matter of selecting what you want to convert. For example if I wanted all of these rows and columns turned into regular text, I select them, go to the Layout tab and Convert to Text. If you want the entire table to be converted, click anywhere in the table, click the little icon in the top left corner for selecting an entire table and then click Convert to Text. When you do that, you get to choose how you're going to separate the different columns. Because we won't have real rows and columns, we'll have hard returns and something separating our content into…
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Putting text into columns4m 41s
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Creating new tables from scratch6m 25s
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Converting existing text to a table2m 33s
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Formatting table appearance6m 3s
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Adding and removing columns and rows4m 44s
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Merging, splitting, and sizing cells5m 18s
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Sorting data in a table2m 33s
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Converting a table to text1m 58s
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Inserting an Excel table5m 33s
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