: 100+ New Advanced Tools for Outlook.: Enable Tabbed Editing and Browsing in Office, Just Like Chrome, Firefox, IE 8/9/10.: Bring Old Menus and Toolbars Back to Office 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019. Convert text to table in Outlook If you have the texts shown as below screenshot and want to convert them to table, you can do as follows. In your editing email window, select the texts that you want to convert to table.
Then click Insert Table Convert Text to Table. See screenshot: 3. Then a Convert Text to Table dialog pops up. In this dialog, you can: A: Configure the number of columns or rows under Table Size; B: Specify the AutoFit behavior as you need; C: Specify the symbol which is used in your data to separate under Separate text at section. In this example, my data is separated by commas, so I check Commas option.
Click OK to start converting and close the dialog. After converting, you can see the result as follows: Convert table to text in Outlook Besides convert text to table, you can also convert table to text in Outlook. The following section will show you how to convert table to text. Select the table you want to convert to text in your composing email message, and then click Layout Convert to Text. See screenshot: 2. In the Convert Table To Text dialog, select a specific mark or configure by yourself to separate the texts under Separate text with.
In this case, I configure the “ /” mark to separate the texts. Click OK to start converting. After converting, you can see the result as shown in the follow screenshots.
Select all the text in the document and then choose Insert→Table→Convert Text to Table. You can press Ctrl+A to select all the text in the document. The Convert Text to Table dialog box opens, as shown in this figure.
For example, say you have some text listing months and their corresponding number of days. Before we work on converting the text to a table, you may want to view the formatting and paragraph marks so you can see how your text is separated. To do that, click the paragraph button in the Paragraph section of the Home tab. The tabs and paragraph marks display. If you’re converting some text to a two-column table, be sure you only have one tab between the items on each line. Select the lines of text you want to convert to a table.
Click the Insert tab and click Table in the Table section. Select Convert Text to Table from the drop-down menu. On the Convert Text to Table dialog box, the Number of columns should already be set to 2 if you have only one tab between each item on each line. The Number of rows is automatically calculated.
Specify the width of the columns in the table by selecting an option under AutoFit behavior. We decided to make each column just wide enough to fit the contents by selecting AutoFit to contents. Specify the character you used to separate the text on each line under Separate text at. In our example, we selected Tabs.
You could also use other characters such as commas or paragraph marks. You can even specify a character not listed by selecting Other and entering the character in the edit box. Now that you have converted your text to a table, you can easily convert it back to text. To do this, select the table by moving your cursor over the table handle in the upper, left corner of the table and select it. This highlights the whole table. NOTE: If you didn’t have a consistent number of separator characters on each line, you may end up with more rows and columns than you intended and the text might not be placed correctly. The Table Tools tabs become available.
![Table Table](/uploads/1/2/5/4/125420065/832967000.png)
Click the Layout tab. In the Data section of the Layout tab, click Convert to Text. On the Convert Table to Text dialog box, select the character you want to use to separate the columns of text. For our example, we want to separate the text using Tabs. Each row of the table becomes a line of text with tabs separating the items from the columns of the table.
Word automatically inserts a tab marker on the ruler to line up the items from the columns of the table. This feature is handy if you have some text from another document that was not arranged as a table originally, but you want it in table format. Simply make sure the separator characters for each line are set correctly and then convert the text to a table.