Word tables to Excel

Hi , i have a WORD (2003 SP2) document that has about 1000 tables in it. I need to work on these - and i need to work on these in Excel. Now i can copy paste each table into Excel and work on it , but this is time consuming and i will have to format a lot. the word doc is like this:-

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blah blah blah blah
<2 row table>
<heading>
<another large table with 5 cols and 45-100 rows>
blah blah blah blah
.
.
.
---------------------------------------------------------------------

now i need only the tables in Excel - i dont mind if the text (blah blahs) comes in too - i can delete them.....

i am just wondering if there is any magical way i can get all these in Excel without copy paste.... Help !

Originally Posted by Upparna

Hi , i have a WORD (2003 SP2) document that has about 1000 tables in it. I need to work on these - and i need to work on these in Excel. Now i can copy paste each table into Excel and work on it , but this is time consuming and i will have to format a lot. the word doc is like this:-

------------------------------------------------------------------
blah blah blah blah
<2 row table>
<heading>
<another large table with 5 cols and 45-100 rows>
blah blah blah blah
.
.
.
---------------------------------------------------------------------

now i need only the tables in Excel - i dont mind if the text (blah blahs) comes in too - i can delete them.....

i am just wondering if there is any magical way i can get all these in Excel without copy paste.... Help !

Hi

I have just found your message. If i understand, you have in your word document
text
table
text
table
and so on

And you want
table
table
....
without the text in excel. Is it true? I have maybe something. Could you confirm what you want precisely. You can maybe attache an example of your word document.