Hello Jerry,
There are a couple ways to do this. One way will paste all the text and use
tabs for the column dividers. However, any formatting such as bold text and
font size will be lost. Also if you have text that wrapped in cells that text
might wrap to the beginning of lines in Word, which could mess up what you
intended.
To do the first method just select and copy the text in Excel. Open Word and
either use CTRL+Alt+V to bring up the paste special box and choose unformatted
text or you can use the application key and in the paste options choose Keep
Text Only. This method uses tabs as the column dividers.
To keep the formatting for the pasted text you can use the Convert to Text
feature. After copying the text just paste it in Word and a table is created.
Move the cursor into the table so that the contextual tabs for working with
tables are added to the right end of the ribbon. Choose the layout tab. Go to
the data group of the layout tab and choose Convert to Text. (After you move
to the Layout tab use the tab key to move to the lower part of the ribbon. In
Word 2013 use CTRL with right arrow 6 times to get to the Data group). When
you use the Convert to Text button in the Data group you get a dialog box. If
you don't want to use tabs or paragraph marks as dividers then in the group of
radio buttons choose Other. In the editing area where you designate what to
use just put a space. When you use the OK button there will no longer be a
table and the text will maintain the formatting attributes that it had in
Excel. Again though, cells with wrapped lines of text might wrap to the left
margin in Word.
Take care.
Brian Lee
brianl...@charter.net
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Afternoon all.
I am trying to copy the text from an Excel 13 spreadsheet into a Word 13
document. Can anyone tell me what the steps are for doing this, without all of
the tables/cells/rows? I am using JAWS 17, Windows 10 Office 2013 on a Dell
laptop. Many thanks in advance.
Jerry
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