Practical Word skills sharing: How to convert text and tables into each other

In the previous article "Practical Word Tips Sharing: Quickly and Batch Delete Spaces and Empty Lines", we learned how to batch delete spaces and empty lines. Today we are going to talk about the conversion of text and tables, and learn the techniques of converting text into tables in Word and converting tables into text in Word. Come and take a look!

In your daily work, if your boss suddenly sends you a Word document and asks you to make some parts of the text in the Word document into a table format, what will you do? what to do?

Should I create the tables one by one and then copy and paste the text one by one into the table? Or is it some other method?

I guess there are not a few children's shoes that use the above method! If you still operate like this, I can only express my helplessness...you are destined to work overtime!

#In Word, there is a very simple and fast format conversion method that you don’t know how to use! Today, the editor here will teach you some operating skills. Children, pick up the small bench and take a look at it. If you learn how to do it, you can at least work less overtime!

Convert Word text into a table:

In Word, if you want to quickly convert text into a table, you first need to Insert separators between texts, i.e. commas, spaces or tabs (press the Tab key), etc. Its function is to identify the position of rows, columns and cells when text is converted.

For example, we open the word document that needs to be converted, as shown in the figure. As you can see, the "comma" delimiter has been inserted into the current document, so we can convert it directly without inserting another delimiter.

(1) Select the text to be converted, then click the [Insert]-[Table]-[Table] button, and select "Convert text to table" in the pop-up menu "Order.

(2) Open the "Convert text to table" dialog box and click the "OK" button.

Tips: In the "Text Separation Position" column of the "Convert Text to Table" dialog box, you can find paragraph marks, commas, etc. , space, tab and other delimiter options used to separate text positions.

(3) You will get the table as shown in the figure.

But why is this form open-column? Why?

This is caused by the "comma" delimiter. When converting, it should be noted that the comma must be a "half-width comma in English state". Obviously, the comma in the text above is a full-width comma, so the conversion It has the effect of a column table.

(4) At this time, we replace the commas in the text with "half-width commas in English state" and then convert it into a table.

The result is as shown in the figure.

Tips: When replacing the "comma" separator, we can use the "Find and Replace" function to make batch changes. In "Find Content" Enter a full-width comma "," in the text box, enter an English half-width comma "," in the "Replace with" text box, and click the "Replace All" button to change all.

Word converts tables into text:

At work, we You will also encounter a situation where you need to convert the content in a Word table into text form. What will you do?

I guess that most children's shoes will extract the content by copying and pasting into notepad. Yes, there's nothing wrong with that, you can actually do that. But there is actually a simpler way:

(1) Select the entire table and click the [Table Tools]-[Layout]-[Data]-[Convert to Text] button.

(2) Set the converted text separator symbol in the opened dialog box, and then click the "OK" button.

Select the "Comma" effect:

Select the "Tab" effect:

OK, text and tables can be easily converted to each other. Have you learned it?

Recommended tutorial: "Word Tutorial"

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