Category: Geeks r Us
Hi, for work, I have to create an Excel spreadsheet using a Word-created table. I'm not a huge fan of tables that are in Word. Isn't there a way I can open a Word document in Excel? If so, how did it work? Did the columns and rows transfer to Excel without any major glitches?
You can select the Excel columns and rows and copy them / paste into Word. I assume you could probably insert a Word file into Excel if it only contained a table. I don't know how to select an entire table in Word, but it would copy because the copy paste algorithsms used by the visual basic runtime accounts for the object linking and embedding functionality of Office. This isn't linking butyou should get a grid in Excel from a table. You can get malformations there but at least it's readable if that's what you want, read it in Excel. I'm not good at explanations and especially after a few, so so hope this helps at least get you started.
I need to copy and paste quite a few paragraphs from Word into Excel. The problem is that the Text runs over into columns that I have designated for other data. I checked all the help commands I could think in in the Excel help section. But these aren't geared for Jaws users. Anyone have any suggestions? I haven't been able to find an insert column command. I'm used to using Excel 2007, and I'm now on 2010. So there's just a learning curve that I haven't figured out yet. Any tips would be great.
you can insert collumns in excel from the insert tab of the ribbon. You can also insert rows and cells.
I looked under the insert menu, and couldn't find either the insert row or column function. I'm wondering how to get all my text into my cells. Are there any keyboard shortcuts I could use? Perhaps I could just widen the existing cells in the column. the 2010 version of Excel's menus seem really funky compared to the previous version. It could just be me though.
Not really. The only funky one in the 2010 suite is outlook IMO. Btw, try to autofit your collumns, or if the text needs to go in one cell, you can try wrapping the cells.
Will autofit fit all the text in one cell? if not, how do I wrap text into one cell? Thanks.
If you autofit the collumn width or row height it will try to fit to the text of all the collumns. So for example, if you know all of your collumn or row is going to have particularly long strings of text it would be good to autofit the collumn width or row height. However, if you know that the text you are entering is only for one cell it would probably be better to wrap the text. You can wrap the text by doing the following: press alt+H to navigate to the home tab of the ribbon and press the letter W for wrap text. Remember, you need to be in the cell you would like to wrap the text in.
Hope that helps.
Hi, thanks. I did some exploring in Excel today at work, and figured out how to merge cells and other formatting features like column width. I still can't find an autofit command. I'm a novice at creating Excel worksheets with lots of text. Most people don't copy whole paragraphs I would guess. But in order to keep track of procedures at work, my boss has insisted I paste them. Would merging cells work better, or autofit or wrap text? I'm so confused. Thanks for the other suggestions. I really apreciate them.