Microsoft Office Forums

Go Back   Microsoft Office Forums > >

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 06-07-2011, 08:26 AM
RBusiness RBusiness is offline Select Text in Table but Table Gets Selected Too Windows XP Select Text in Table but Table Gets Selected Too Office 2003
Novice
Select Text in Table but Table Gets Selected Too
 
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 1
RBusiness is on a distinguished road
Default Select Text in Table but Table Gets Selected Too

Hello Folks,

I have a 900+ page word doc that has data in it that was on HTML web pages. I copy and pasted it in there for a big edit of data.



There are many tables within the documents that I've tried to get rid of but converting Table to Text had mixed results and there are actually some tables that I need to keep.

So here's the challenge, I am trying to simply SELECT text and then COPY it to another document so I can get a clean document. Almost every time I make a text / paragraph / group of paragraph selection, the entire table gets selected. I can't use that. I only need what I'm trying to copy out of the doc.

More back story: After I pasted the 900 pages into Word for auditing, we went through and color coded RED for delete and BLACK for keep. All this data is in hundreds of tables. Instead of trying to mess with the document and remove all tables and so on, I figured it would be easy to just copy out the 100 or so things I do need and just leave the "RED" stuff in there.

Already Tried These
TOOLS>OPTIONS>EDIT | Unchecked "use smart paragraph selection"

CONVERT TABLE to TEXT | mixed results with bulleting and tabbing taking places, very bad

Praying | As always, no response

Got any ideas folks?
And thank you in advance and I mean a HUGE thank you in advance!

RB

Last edited by RBusiness; 06-07-2011 at 09:32 AM.
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 06-07-2011, 04:26 PM
macropod's Avatar
macropod macropod is offline Select Text in Table but Table Gets Selected Too Windows 7 32bit Select Text in Table but Table Gets Selected Too Office 2007
Administrator
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Canberra, Australia
Posts: 21,956
macropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond repute
Default

Hi RB,

Given that you've marked the text for deletion in red, a simple Find/Replace for red text will take care of that.

As for the problem of everything being in tables, that is a common problem with data copied from web pages. It's often best to convert all tables, including nested ones, to text and then, if you want certain items in table form, to revert (re-convert) only those items to tables. Thankfully, the convert to text process usually keeps the formatting info intact for the reversion.
__________________
Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Why right clicking anywhere on the selected table looses the selection! Jamal NUMAN Word 0 01-13-2011 06:10 PM
Table - Check Boxes - Create Select All lajohn1963 Word Tables 2 09-25-2010 11:18 AM
Pasting table in Photoshop cutting off table azdolfan Word Tables 0 05-16-2010 01:52 PM
Temporarily show/hide selected table rows glricht Word Tables 0 12-29-2009 05:40 AM
table text overlap zaqtivi Word Tables 4 05-22-2009 12:26 PM

Other Forums: Access Forums

All times are GMT -7. The time now is 02:53 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
Search Engine Optimisation provided by DragonByte SEO (Lite) - vBulletin Mods & Addons Copyright © 2024 DragonByte Technologies Ltd.
MSOfficeForums.com is not affiliated with Microsoft