Print only columns I want

[crescere]

I am sure there is an easy way to do what I want, but I am not able to do it. My Realtor sends me a list of homes in a table attached to an e-mail. I want to just print the information and take it with me to search for houses. Even if I print it in landscape the last three columns I want are deleted while the first few columns that do get printed are unnecessary. At one point I just selected the whole table, pasted it to Word, then when I right clicked above the table columns I did not want and it allowed me to select “delete cells” and “delete entire column.” I did that once successfully, but now when I try that with his next e-mail the columns will not delete.

Please just tell me how I can print the columns I want from this table. Thank you in advance.

[crescere]

Do I need to explain this better? I must be missing some easy way to do this.

[macropod]

Word cannot print just 'selected' columns. If there are columns you don't want to print you'll need to either delete them or format their contents, borders, etc. as hidden. If you're sometimes getting tables with columns and sometimes not, that may be a reflection of differences in the copy/paste approach you've used, how much you've copied & pasted in one go or a change in the way the data layouts are handled on the website.

[crescere]

Originally Posted by macropod

If you're sometimes getting tables with columns and sometimes not, that may be a reflection of differences in the copy/paste approach you've used, how much you've copied & pasted in one go or a change in the way the data layouts are handled on the website.

To copy I just left click and move the cursor to select all of what my Realtor sends me in the table. I then right click and select copy in the blue "painted" area. I switch to Word, right click and choose paste. When I did this last week I had a working table that I could delete columns. Now I think I somehow loose the table in the paste.

Do you know of some other way? There must be some way to do this.

[macropod]

As I have already said, it all depends on exactly what it is you're copying, and whether that has changed. That could be affected by whether the website's format has been changed or even by how much of a given page you're copying. Unless you're using 'Paste Special', it has probably nothing to do with the pasting.

[crescere]

Originally Posted by macropod

As I have already said, it all depends on exactly what it is you're copying, and whether that has changed.

My Realtor sends me a table containing houses. The houses on the table change, but it is the same basic table. How would you "copy" and "paste" a table from an e-mail to Word so you can manipulate it? I copy and paste the whole thing. It worked once, but no more.

Yesterday I did have some success by copying and pasting the table into Excell, deleting some columns, and then pasting that into Word to print. If I print it from Excell it is a solid line of gibberish. The problem is that using this method the house addresses take up more rows, and what should be one page ends up being six pages of print. Somewhere in the process I seem to loose the ability to decrease the font size.

I find it hard to believe there is not an easier way of doing this. I am just missing something.

[macropod]

Since I neither have access to your data, nor to your copy/paste process, I am unable to say for sure what the issues are. I doubt anyone else would be able to do better, either.