Removing table formatting from a copied document

[jroix]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I have copied a set of regulations and want to revise them for proposing to my local government. The document is a heavily formatted table, and I wish to remove all table formatting to be left with just the text. Word crashes every time I attempt to remove any formatting, and also crashes anytime i attempt to edit the text. There also appears to be manual page breaks that I cannot locate with "find" or "change" as the document claims to be over 200 pages when it is under 40.

 

[CyberTaz]

Hello _______-

I have no way of knowing what you may have copied, where you copied it from,
or what specific "copying" technique was used, but the symptoms you are
describing are the very definition of corruption.

You might first try:

Table> Select> Table
Table> Convert> Table to Text

If that doesn't do it try:

Table> Select> Table
Copy
In a new blank document:
Edit> Paste Special - Unformatted Text

If neither of them get 'er done there are other techniques for
"uncorrupting" a document here:

http://word.mvps.org/Mac/DocumentCorruption.html