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Subject:Re: excel to word From:Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:10:45 -0500
Heather,
A friend with whom I had lunch mentioned a trick she uses to capture text in documents with formatting
that is incompatible with the tool she's using: open it in NotePad! This strips all formatting out of
it. You can then either paste it into your document or insert it.
HTH
Jo Byrd
"Ownsworth, Heather (H.J.)" wrote:
> Carol Gosnell wrote -Paste Special as RTF into Word. Select the whole table and Use the Table to
> Text function, separating text with tabs.
>
> Carol thanks this worked really well - much better than all the other options I have tried so far.
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