Yes, you certainly can copy selected text from Word and paste it in Excel. I don't understand why you would want to do it, though. Word has the means of taking an Excel worksheet and converting it to a table. You can then select the table and format it so that it looks nice. Excel has no easy way of taking text and converting it to spreadsheet data. Word is a word processor and Excel handles data; they are two different things. Francis -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx