Go to Format Table & near the bottom of the menu is Convert Table to Text & Convert Text to Table. I find it is only available with inline tables.

Up to 5 computers – any combination of Windows, Mac and Linux. Convert tables to text. Convert text to tables. Insert whole documents. Convert a table to text Select the rows or table you want to convert to text. On the Layouttab, in the Data section, click Convert to Text. In the Convert to Textbox, under Separate text with, click the separator character you want to use in place of the column boundaries. Word 2013 allows you to convert text to a table in with a few simple clicks — if you already have some text that’s separated into rows and columns with tabs, commas, or some other consistent character. For conversion to work, the existing text must be delimited with a. Select the table. From the Table Tools Layout tab in the Data group, select Convert to Text. In the Convert Table to Text dialog box, set how you want to separate the text and click OK. The table is converted.

Convert a Table, Chart, Graph, or Text Box into an Image

If you need to format a book that contains a table, chart, graph, etc., into an ebook, you may wish to change the table into an image. Certain platforms, such as Kindle, will convert some of these elements correctly, but other self publishing ebooks platforms do not. All self publishing distributors, however, accept images within a document. Therefore, if you’d like your graph (etc.) to look just as it does in your Microsoft Word or print document, you may want to convert it into an image.

Book Fromatting How To:

• If your table (or other graphic element) is in a Microsoft Word document, print the page to PDF. If you are unable to save one page as a PDF, save the entire document as a PDF.

• If your table is in a multiple page PDF, note which page it is on.

• Open an image software program, such as Photoshop or Gimp, that will allow you to open a PDF file. As you open the PDF file, choose the following settings, if available: 1) specify which page you would like to open, 2) the dpi you would like your final image to be, and 3) if available, choose the color space (RGB or CMYK) that you would like your final image to be.

• Using the crop tool, crop the table from the page. If needed, adjust the image resolution and resize the image. Save the table image as a JPG file.

• Insert the image into your Microsoft Word .doc.

Make calculations and draw up a table more conveniently in Excel if you want to work with numeric data. In fact the program is a table. Word for such work is not quite fit.

But sometimes you have to migrate from an Excel table to Word. Also you may need to convert filled data. Converting from one format to another is unproductive and takes too much time. There should be another way.

How to move a table from Excel to Word?

The first method.

1. We have a table with three columns and five rows. The boundaries are set.
2. Select the data range. Click Copy in the main menu. Alternatively use the key combination Ctrl + C. Also you may select table and click the right mouse button. Than choose and click «Copy».
3. Open the Word List. In the main menu use «Paste» tool. Select the «Paste Special».
4. We set the parameters of a special paste. «Paste Link» - «Microsoft Excel Worksheet Object». Check is the source for insert selected correctly. Click OK.

The result of our work:

This method has some drawbacks:

• table inserted as a graphic object that is it cannot be edited.
• border spreadsheets may extend beyond the sheet.

The second method.

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1. Select a table in MS Excel. Copy it to the clipboard.
2. Open MS Word. Click «Paste» or use the key combination CTRL+V (Shift+Ins). The result is next:

We can edit the data, change borders, font values and format.

This method of insertion has one significant drawback. Table with a large amount of data goes beyond the sheet.

The third method.

1. Go to the tab «INSERT» in In Word sheet. We need the menu «Text» and the tool «Object».
2. Select «Create from File» in the dialog box. Click «Browse» to find the text file Prodic1.txt.
3. In the «File name:» line will be its data when the desired object will be found. Click OK.

The inserted table is a graphical object. You cannot edit the values in the cells.

You should first remove borders to insert a range of data without boundaries.

In MS Excel:

Or use a combination of keys CTRL + SHIFT + (minus).

In MS Word:

If you want to manipulate the boundaries must be inserted with the 1 and 2 method.

How to convert a table from Word to Excel?

We’ll perform a reverse transfer.

Method 1.

1. Select a table in MS Word. Click «Copy» CTRL+C.
2. Open MS Excel. Put the mouse in the place where the table should appear. Click «Paste» after right click.

We have a 'neat' table. Therefore it inserted smoothly and accurately. If the data were filled ugly with a lot of extra characters (non-printable) so the row and column boundaries may shift. There are 2 outputs to escape from this situation:

1. Clean the data manually. If there are a lot of recurring characters you can use AutoCorrect Options.
2. Save the spreadsheet as text (in txt format). In this case all the extra characters will be deleted. And then insert the data from the txt to Excel.

Method 2.

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1. Select the table in Word. Menu «TABLE TOOL» - «LAYOUT» - the tool «Convert to Text». In the parameters of the transformation choose «Tabs».
2. Go to the main menu – «Save as» - «Save as type». Choose file type «Plain Text (*.txt)».
3. Open Excel. «DATA» tab. «Get External Data» - «From Text».
4. Now find the saved file. Click «Open». And then the «Text Import Wizard» opens.
5. Set the desired conversion settings. Choose data format with delimiters. Separator character is a tab character. Done.

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You can edit the data and draw border etc. This method of insertion removes the extra characters and prevents displacement of the cells.