Andy Adcock
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Can anyone tell me in idiot speak if possible, if there's a simple way to convert an Excel document to Word?
Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance
Can anyone tell me in idiot speak if possible, if there's a simple way to convert an Excel document to Word?
Thanks in advance
Really depends on what kind of Excel document and what kind of formatting do you want to conserve - the question is quite a broad one.
A simple thing to try is to select a whole sheet in Excel (CTRL+A) and then copy it (CTRL+C) and then just paste in Word (CTRL+V) - oftentimes this produces a workable table and this conserves all formatting. However if the table is wide, this may be complicated.
The opposite extreme is that you can FILE->SAVE AS the Excel table as .CSV and choose tabulators as delimiters and then open this in Word as a text file - then you will just see the plain contents of the cells separated by tabs as free-flowing text and this then can be molded in Word as much as you wish.
What I want to do, is transfer a bird list which is in excel, all I want are the species names, common andd scientific. This will just save me time in typing them in, all I'll do is delete stuff from the checklist we didn't see.
I tried copy and paste which transfers the text but it also carries over gridlines and all the formatting that is within the document and makes it really awkward the include any text.
When I upgrade to W10 as I surely will have to, can I load Word in to it?
Kit, numbers is the Apple software “version” of Windows Excel. He wants to move data from Windows Excel to Windows Word.If it is a spread sheet then you need to copy into Numbers rather than Word.
When I upgraded to W10 I was able to load Open Office, so don't see why Libra should be a problem.
Why was Libra an issue for what you wanted to do? It's a long time since I wanted to do what you did, but I was able to do it via OO (once I understood the terminology that is LOL)
Thanks Delia.