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Tables are a great way to organize information and Microsoft Word lets you create a table in two different ways. Right now, let’s take a look at converting text to a table.
The key is that you need to format the text to certain way so that Word can easily convert that. It’s helpful if you have the non-printing character showing so you can see the formatting more clearly. Just open up the menu for the Office button and choose Word options down at the bottom of the menu.
In the dialog box, select display and check the box to show all formatting marks then click OK. When you type non-printing characters like paragraph breaks will be visible. Now, create the text that you want to appear in the table. You need to use the tab key to create the space between texts as if it were in columns. To start a new row just hit Enter, so this is going to be a table with four columns and two rows.
Now, we need to convert the text to a table. First, go up to the Insert tab in the top navigation bar then highlight the text that you want to convert, and then in the insert options go to the tables group and open the menu for tables. Here in the menu you’ll see an option to convert text to table, so select that one.
In the dialog box, just confirm that you have the right number of columns and rows, if everything looks good click OK. Voila, we have a table. You’ll also see that the design options are open in the Table Tools along the top navigation, so you can dress things up a bit if you’re so inclined, and that’s how easy it is to convert text to a table.
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