MS Office Word: Convert table into text

With MS Office Word, you can quickly convert table content into body text. You can find out how to do this in this practical tip.

Convert table into text - how it works in MS Office Word

1. Select the table that you would prefer to convert into continuous text. If you only want to convert a certain section of the table into text, mark this part with the left mouse button pressed.
2. If the table is selected, you will see a new "Table Tools" tab in the ribbon. Click the "Layout" entry in this tab.
3. In the ribbon that is now open you will find the "Data" command group on the far right with the "Convert to text" command. Activate the associated dialog box by left-clicking the mouse on this entry.
4. You can now specify in the "Convert tables to text" dialog box whether the entries in your table in the text should be separated by paragraph marks, tab stops, semicolons or freely selected characters. Confirm your choice by clicking "OK" and your table will be converted to text.

This practical tip is based on MS Word 2010. In the next article, you will learn how to reverse the way in your Word file. There we show you how to convert a text into a table.