Convert Text to Table

[Tammy]

I have an outline of text as follows

1. Sampl
2. Sampl
a. Sampl
b. Sampl
c. Sampl
3. Sampl
a. Sampl
b. Sampl

I want to covert the above text to a table - that works fine - but I want to add a column to the right with the same number of rows. HELP!
I'm using Word 200
Thank yo

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Bonjour,

Dans son message, < Tammy > écrivait :
In this message, < Tammy > wrote:

|| I have an outline of text as follows:
||
|| 1. Sample
|| 2. Sample
|| a. Sample
|| b. Sample
|| c. Sample
|| 3. Sample
|| a. Sample
|| b. Sample
||
|| I want to covert the above text to a table - that works fine - but I want
to add a column to the
|| right with the same number of rows. HELP! I'm using Word 2000
|| Thank you

Quick and dirty:

Select the end of row markers (place the cursor above the first end of row
marker and glide the cursor down until it becomes a dark arrow pointing
down, then click to select);
Right click the selection;
And choose Insert column in the contextual menu that appears.

That's it!


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_______________________________________
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[Tammy]

-----Original Message-----
Bonjour,

Dans son message, < Tammy > écrivait :
In this message, < Tammy > wrote:

|| I have an outline of text as follows:
||
|| 1. Sample
|| 2. Sample
|| a. Sample
|| b. Sample
|| c. Sample
|| 3. Sample
|| a. Sample
|| b. Sample
||
|| I want to covert the above text to a table - that works fine - but I want
to add a column to the
|| right with the same number of rows. HELP! I'm using Word 2000
|| Thank you

Quick and dirty:

Select the end of row markers (place the cursor above the first end of row
marker and glide the cursor down until it becomes a dark arrow pointing
down, then click to select);
Right click the selection;
And choose Insert column in the contextual menu that appears.

That's it!

Thank you for you help - Although it still is not working.
I'm sorry, I should have elaborated.
This is what I am doing.
I outline my text - Example above.
I highlight the text
Click Table > Convert > Text to Table
I set the number of columns to 1.
(If I set the columns to 2, it splits up my numbered
outline into the column to the right and I want it all
kept in the column to the left)
I set the "Separate Text at" to paragraph
Click ok
One column is inserted - but it's too wide.
I drag the right edge of the table to the left to make the
column width smaller.
I insert a column as you suggest above and it takes part
of my numbered outline and places it in the column to the
left and I want it blank - HELP

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Bonjour,

Dans son message, < Tammy > écrivait :
In this message, < Tammy > wrote:

|||| I have an outline of text as follows:
||||
|||| 1. Sample
|||| 2. Sample
|||| a. Sample
|||| b. Sample
|||| c. Sample
|||| 3. Sample
|||| a. Sample
|||| b. Sample
||||
|||| I want to covert the above text to a table - that works fine - but I
want to add a column to
|||| the right with the same number of rows. HELP! I'm using Word 2000
|||| Thank you
||
|| Quick and dirty:
||
|| Select the end of row markers (place the cursor above the first end of
row
|| marker and glide the cursor down until it becomes a dark arrow pointing
|| down, then click to select);
|| Right click the selection;
|| And choose Insert column in the contextual menu that appears.
||
|| That's it!
||
||
|| --
|| Salut!
|
| Thank you for you help - Although it still is not working.
| I'm sorry, I should have elaborated.
| This is what I am doing.
| I outline my text - Example above.
| I highlight the text
| Click Table > Convert > Text to Table
| I set the number of columns to 1.
| (If I set the columns to 2, it splits up my numbered
| outline into the column to the right and I want it all
| kept in the column to the left)
| I set the "Separate Text at" to paragraph
| Click ok
| One column is inserted - but it's too wide.
| I drag the right edge of the table to the left to make the
| column width smaller.
| I insert a column as you suggest above and it takes part
| of my numbered outline and places it in the column to the
| left and I want it blank - HELP

Have you selected the "end of row" markers (the "¤" that are outside the
table itself, down the right margin)? Or the "end of cell" markers (i.e. the
"¤" inside the table)?

Or, (I do not remember off hand, and my version of Word 2000 is down for
now), check if there is an sub menu to the choice "Insert" in the "Table"
menu. There maybe a "Insert > Column to right" choice. It is available with
Word 2002, was not under Word 97, but I do not remember if it was introduced
in Word 2000 or XP (I went straight from 97 to XP..., I have used 2000, but
am a bit lost as to exactly when some features were introduced...).

--
Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
(e-mail address removed)
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Like you, I skipped from 97 to 2002, but I believe the choice of right/left,
above/below was introduced (along with all the other dire new table
features) in Word 2000.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Yes it was.

--
Stefan Blom

Like you, I skipped from 97 to 2002, but I believe the choice of right/left,
above/below was introduced (along with all the other dire new table
features) in Word 2000.



markers (i.e.
the available was used 2000,
but

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Bonjour,

Dans son message, < Tammy > écrivait :
In this message, < Tammy > wrote:

|| I selected the "end of row" markers (the "¤" that are outside the
|| table itself, down the right margin) and the "end of cell" markers (i.e.
the
|| "¤" inside the table) and my numbered outline is still separating.
|| What happens is:
|| When I insert the first column everything is fine, then I insert the
column to the right and my
|| outline is as follows:
||
|| 1. Sample
|| 2. Sample
|| a. Sample
|| b. Sample
|| 3. Sample
|| 4. Sample
|| 5. Sample
|| a. Sample
|| b. Sample
|| When I insert a column to the right, using the methods you mentioned
above, I get the same result
|| The above outline turns into the following:
|| My first column has a numbered outline like this:
|| 1. Sample
|| 3. Sample
|| a. Sample
|| c. Sample
|| 5. Sample
|| 7. Sample
|| 9. Sample
|| a. Sample
|| c. Sample
|| and my column to the right is as follows:
|| 2.
|| 4.
|| b.
|| d.
|| 6.
|| 8.
|| 10.
|| b.
|| d.
|| Any suggestions?
|| I only want a blank column inserted to the right.

Haaaaa! And there was light...!
Sorry for being so thick and no foreseeing this...

Now I get it. When you add columns or rows, Word automatically assigns the
same styles to the added cells than the one present in the cells immediately
preceding the insertion point.
In your case, Word is adding a column with numbering activated, as in the
first column. And, in tables, numbering is horizontal... don't ask me why!

So, after you add the second column, while it is still selected, do : Format

Bullets and Numbering and apply None as a numbering scheme to the second

column.

Does that finally do it?

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Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
(e-mail address removed)
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Bonjour,

Dans son message, < Tammy > écrivait :
In this message, < Tammy > wrote:

|| THAT DID IT!
|| Thank you so much!
|| I'm sorry if I wasn't explaining it well enough.


Great ))

No, don't be sorry, my bad... should have told you from the get go!

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Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
(e-mail address removed)
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org