Yeah...select the table and click Table/Convert Table to Text and that should do it. If you still have any font formatting you want to wipe out...hit Ctrl/A to Select All (or select the area you need) and hit Ctrl/Shift/N to toss it all back to Normal style. Then you can reapply any formatting you might need. Hope this helps... Dian D. Chapman Technical Consultant, Microsoft MVP & Instructor Free Tutorials: www.mousetrax.com/techtrax Free Word Tips & Tricks eBook: www.mousetrax.com/books.html Learn VBA the easy way, thru video! www.mousetrax.com/techcourses.html -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michele Wong Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 1:20 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Unformatting a Document I have a document that's full of shaded tables. What I'd like to do is strip all of the formatting and turn it into a plain text document. Can this be done? Thanks, Michele B. Wong Reliable Cyber Solutions, LLC "We're only a click away!" http://www.reliablecyber.com <http://www.reliablecyber.com/> michele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 425.488.8078 phone 206.683.0624 mobile 775.245.3291 fax ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles ************************************************************* ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************