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creates a table like this:
Note
This function can be disabled or enabled in Tools > AutoCorrect.
On the Options tab, deselect or select Create table.
Caution
When using tabs instead of a table to line up your data, always
make sure that you know how wide they are set and remember
that default tabs may be different when the document is
displayed on a different computer or even when copying the
same data in a new document.
Create a table from formatted text
It is possible to create a table starting from plain text by means of the
Table > Convert > Text to
Table menu. In order for
this command to work
effectively, the starting text
needs to have clear
demarcation between what
will become the columns of
the table. Paragraph marks
indicate the end of a row.
To convert text to a table,
start by selecting the text
you want to convert and
choose Table > Convert >
Text to Table to open the
dialog shown in Figure 271.
In the top part of the dialog, select the symbol that separates the
columns. This would normally be a tab, but it could be a semicolon or
comma if you are importing a CSV file. The other options in this dialog
are the same as those in the dialog used to insert a table shown in
Figure 269.
Example
In this example we will convert the following text into a table.
Row 1 Column 1; Row 1 Column 2; Row 1 Column 3
Row 2 Column 1; Row 2 Column 2; Row 2 Column 3
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Figure 271: Dialog box to configure the
text to table conversion
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