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    Word Table to Excel

    Hi all,
    I am hoping someone has some thoughts. I know how to copy and paste a word table into excel, but I have a few hundred pages of reference lists that go back to the early 90's from multiple team members and I am trying to streamline the process for the team by putting it in excel vs a word document so I am combining several different word documents that they've all done their reference list with tables within the word document.
    I have attached a sample copy of the tables I am working with in word, the column I highlighted in yellow is the issue, the TEST SITE and the TEST DATA are all distorted when I copy the table into excel. I've tried in excel to merge them, that does not work either.
    Anyways, just looking or help to be able to quickly to this project.
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    Re: Word Table to Excel

    Word tables and Excel tables are not the same so Excel does its best to do something sensible when it sees differences. In particular what is giving you trouble is that you have paragraph marks in your Word table. (If you do not have them visible, go in the Ribbon to Home > Paragraph and click the little ¶ icon to see them in your table.) Excel thinks that means they should be separate cells, so you get this weird mish-mash of merged cells.

    To fix this for export, replace the paragraph marks with a different character, then change it back in Excel.

    In Word:

    Home > Editing > Replace
    Find What: click Special and select paragraph mark. You should see ^p appear in the box
    Replace With: ###

    The ### is just arbitrary. You can use any string that does not otherwise appear anywhere in your document.

    Copy table
    Paste into in Excel

    In Excel:

    Home > Editing > Find and Select > Replace

    Find What: ###
    Replace with: Hold down the ALT key and type 010

    Now Replace All
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    Re: Word Table to Excel

    Jeff, thank you so much. That worked absolutely AMAZING!

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