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Old June 2nd, 2010, 09:26 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement,microsoft.public.word.programming,microsoft.public.word.tables,microsoft.public.word.vba.general
Jay Freedman
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Default converting tabular structures in a Word document into an actual table or reading data from the tabular structures using VBA code

Select the tabular structure and click Table Convert Text to Table (or
in Word 2007, Insert Table Convert Text to Table).

Before you can get this to work properly, you may have to do some cleanup to
remove some of the line-drawing characters, especially those that make the
corners and the horizontal lines. Instead of removing the vertical lines
between the columns, use those as the "separator characters" in the
conversion dialog.

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s wrote:
I have a macro which can read the last cell/column of all tables in a
Word 2003/2007 document and store the data in an MS-Access table. But,
some Word documents have the data in structures like a table format
but are not actually tables. The structure looks like a table, but the
table borders are actually line connectors. These documents were
created by a software(VeryPDF PDF to Word converter) which converted
the PDF documents(the original format these documents were) into Word
documents.

1. Is there a way I can convert/replace the tabular structures with
actual tables in Word so that I can use the macro?

2. Or, is there a way I can read the value of the last column from the
tabular structures using some VBA code?

Any advice would be appreciated.