Machine running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. MS Office with Word 2003 (I'm pretty sure). Very specific question - you will either know the answer or not. I'm not looking to mess about trying things. Just seeing if anybody knows this.
Some months back, I started to make a document where I could write in values - that's with a pen on a printed-out sheet. It started out as a plain text document, but then as it got some way along, I made the places where I wanted to write stuff in into crude 'boxes' by using underscore , lots of tabs, and that vertical line above the "\" at the left side of the keyboard - 'pipe' is it called ?? Not a very elegant way of doing it, I know, but I was already too far in time-wise when I realised that I should have constructed a table, and it didn't matter what it looked like, as it was just for me.
At some point, I had copied a line of these boxes, and was merrily pasting in copies down the page. All of a sudden, a question box popped up on the screen that said something like "Are you trying to create a table ?" That might not have been exactly it, but along those lines. I was a bit taken aback by this 'intelligent' intervention on the part of Word, and without looking much closer, I just clicked "YES". It wasn't going to do much harm as I had only just saved a copy. Long and short of it - Bam! It converted the whole page into a beautifully tabulated sheet with neat boxes and rows and columns made out of uninterrupted lines. It was a better result than I think I could have created had I have gone straight for a table.
So, the question is, does anyone know (for certain) how this happened, or how I invoke this feature again, as I have another similarly-made document now that I would dearly love Word to do the same to ...
I've looked on the 'net at tutorials, forums, question boards, you name it. But no reference to this one click solution. Lots of stuff about converting text to tables and all sorts of multi-stage conversion processes, but nothing as simple as answering "YES" to a question automatically posed by Word itself. I know there's lots of computah boffs on here much cleverer at it than me, so anyone know what I'm talking about ?
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