Re: converting a table to plain text in MSWord 2000

  • From: Ann Byrne <annakb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:18:45 -0600

While the cursor is within the table, choose 'tables from the menu bar or 
with alt-a; arrow down to convert, and choose table to text.

At 07:10 PM 12/14/2004, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>I received a document with a .doc extension from my job that I need to read
>but when I open it up in MSWord 2000 it is a table.  Is there any way to
>convert this table to just a text document and if so how would I do it?  Of
>course when I convert it it would still need to be set up the same way in
>the columns because it is abbreviations that I'm not supposed to use and it
>appears that the first column is the abbreviation and then maybe the second
>column is the reason not to use that abbreviation.  I'm assuming that
>there's only two columns but there may be more, I just can't tell since I'm
>not familiar with the commands for reading tables.  And if it cannot be
>converted then where can I find the commands for reading tables?
>
>Thanks for any help on this matter.
>Troy
>
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