I'm using drop downs to fill in tables, then mail merging it. I need to save a table as a CSV format, so normally, I would just copy and paste in Excel. But it doesn't work, because the drop-down fields don't copy over into Excel.

The only workaround that I can think of, which I think is risky would be to convert it to a PDF and then OCR the document into Excel, but worried I could introduce errors.

So are there any workarounds for being able to convert drop downs to text?

Note that I'm using Word 2003. Yes I preferred over the newer versions. Is this issue solved in newer versions? Anyone have any great ideas.



Thanks so much!

Reid