Frank
Thu Oct 12 18:16:39 CDT 2006
Thank you. I figured it out, but there is
one annoying problem.
The table I have scanned from the book fills
the page in an up/down mode thought there is
still only two columns to the table.
Access2003 thinks that there are as many
fields as there are columns on the page.
How do I fix this? The scan comes out as a
RTF table in Word2003 with many columns, so
how do I get an only-two column table from
many? Cutting the extra columns and trying
to paste them to the first two does not work.
Regards, Frank
"Cindy M." <C.Meister-C@hispeed.ch> wrote in
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> Hi Frank,
>
>> I have Word/Access2003.
>>
>> With a scanner I have successfully
>> converted
>> a table in a book into a table in
>> Word2003.
>>
>> I want to transfer this Word2003 table
>> into a
>> table in Access2003.
>>
> Select the table. Table/Convert/Table to
> Text. Save as a
> plain text file (make sure there's nothing
> else in the
> document!). The result will be a standard
> delimited text
> file which Access should be able to import.
>
> Caveat: if the table cells contain
> paragraph marks you'll
> need to remove them (or replace them with
> something else)
> before converting to text. The record
> delimiter is a
> paragraph and you can't change that.
>
> Cindy Meister
> INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
>
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