Help: importing ASCII tables

[YourEmailId]

It is easy to import ascii files into EXCEL (e.g. comma separated value
files). Is there a similarly simple way to import ascii formatted table
directly into word? I have ascii data that can be formatted any way that
WORD would like it, I need to import this data into a WORD table.

If not, is there a way to import EXCEL tables into WORD tables and not
have the import show up as an EXCEL file in WORD?

-Thanks in advance
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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Hi Chuck,

Paste the comma separated data into Word, then select it and from the Tables
menu, select Convert Text to Table.

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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Jay Freedman]

It is easy to import ascii files into EXCEL (e.g. comma separated value
files). Is there a similarly simple way to import ascii formatted table
directly into word? I have ascii data that can be formatted any way that
WORD would like it, I need to import this data into a WORD table.

If not, is there a way to import EXCEL tables into WORD tables and not
have the import show up as an EXCEL file in WORD?

-Thanks in advance
(e-mail address removed)

Hi, Chuck,

Word doesn't have the fancy import filters that Excel has, so there
isn't a simple way to import something like a CSV file. But once it's
in Excel, just copy it to the clipboard, go to Word, select Edit >
Paste Special, and tell it to insert as RTF.