How to Copy a Word Table into Excel?

When you want to move data from a Microsoft Office Word table to Microsoft Office Excel, you can avoid having to retype that data by copying it from Word directly into Excel. When you copy data from a Word table into an Excel worksheet (worksheet: The primary document that you use in Excel to store and work with data. Also called a spreadsheet. A worksheet consists of cells that are organized into columns and rows; a worksheet is always stored in a workbook.), the data in each Word table cell is pasted in an individual cell on the worksheet.

After pasting the data, you may have to clean it up so that you can take advantage of the calculation features in Excel. For example, there may be unwanted extra spacing in cells, numbers may have been pasted as text rather than as numeric values that you can calculate, or dates are not displayed correctly.

Step by Step Tutorial - How to Copy a Word Table into Excel ?

Step 1. In a Word document, select the rows and columns of the table that you want to copy to an Excel worksheet.

Step 2. To copy the selection, press CTRL+C.

Step 3. In the Excel worksheet, select the upper-left corner of the worksheet area where you want to paste the Word table.

Step 4. On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click Copy

Keyboard shortcut You can also press CTRL+C.

Step 5. To adjust the formatting, click Paste Options next to the data that you pasted, and then do the following:

• To use the formatting that is applied to the worksheet cells, click Match Destination Formatting.
• To use the formatting of the Word table, click Keep Source Formatting.

Note

*Excel pastes the contents of each Word table cell into a single cell. After you paste the data, you can distribute the data across additional cells in a column (for example, to divide first and last names so that they appear in separate cells) by using the Text to Columns command (Data tab, Data Tools group).

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