Hi,

I have a huge data of below format:

1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 1
8 5 6 9 7
2 3 6 5 9

I need to read the data in following format
1
2
3
4


5
6
7
8
9
1
8
5
6
9
7
2
3
6
5
9

Could anyone please help me, how to change from above format to below format??

Thanks in advance

This is really simple: Select the whole table and use Table Tools>Layout>Merge Cells. If you want, you can then use the Convert to Text conversion to delete the table, then Insert>Table>Convert Text to table, to recreate the table with a separate row for each item.

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Hi,

Thanks for the reply, but its not a table.. the numbers are just like that in the word not as table...

Well, with a thread title like "Changing rows into columns" I can't imagine how anyone could be expected to know it wasn't already a table; after all, rows and columns are table elements, not part of the ordinary content of a document, which basically has only lines and paragraphs.

Given that it's just lines of text, you might start by converting it to a table, via Insert>Table>Convert Text to Table, specifying the space character as the 'Separate text at' attribute. Then follow the rest of the steps from my previous post.

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What are the separators in the original data?
If it's a space then ;
Select what's to be modified
Open Advanced Find
Turn on use Wildcards
In the Find What Box type ([0-9]) (Where the smiley is a space or whatever is after the number)
In the replace box type ^13\1
This replaces all numbers followed by a space into the number followed by a carriage return.

Optionally to save your sanity cause word regex sucks use a proper editor

Actually, it's probably even simpler that that - use an ordinary Find/Replace with:
Find = ^w
Replace = ^p

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If it's always one white space yeah but the pasted text had two white spaces.

After the poster if more familiar with Advanced Find & Replace then making it more cut down is a good idea.

Apart from the fact the posted data has only one space between each number, the ^w Find expression treats multiple spaces, tabs, etc as a single unit.

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Ok fair cop & I learn't something. When I pasted it to test the regex I got two spaces but good to know ^w covers many.