The easiest approach would be to keep the table but hide the borders. Select the whole table and, on the Format menu, click Borders and Shading. On the Borders tab, make sure that "Apply to" is set to "Table" and then click "None."

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True, I also thought about this solution, only I need the result in a normally (closely) spaced paragaraph. In a table, information is aligned in a matrix form.

I'm afraid I'm asking for the impossible or the utmost eccentric.

If only Excel would know to concatenate strings with KEEPING THEIR FORMATS - that would be my solution. I wonder whether Excel 2007 or 2010 is able to do that.

Thanx,

Mike

If you adjust the column widths when you hide the borders, it would like (almost) like an ordinary paragraph, but I realize of course that it wouldn't be perfect.

Merging cells, as you have seen, introduces returns (paragraph marks), so that wouldn't be much better.

I'm thinking that starting with a table and then converting it to text could work. In the process, tab characters would be added, but these can be replaced with spaces. If you could figure out what would suit you the best, maybe it would be possible to create a macro that does the (re-)formatting automatically.

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