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iWork Pages Convert Text to Table

I'm using iWork Pages version 10.0 on a MacBook Pro. In this version of Pages is there a way to convert rows of tab delimited text to a table?

iMac, macOS 10.12

Posted on Apr 15, 2020 6:29 PM

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Posted on Apr 16, 2020 3:52 AM

There is no convenience feature in Pages 10 to convert tab delimited text to table, or the obverse.


Select all of the tab delimited text, and copy to the clipboard. Open a new table, and click once on the cell where the delimited text should originate. Typically, this is the first cell of the table. Perform a simple (control+V) paste into that selected cell, and the delimited text will expand table dimensions as needed to accept the delimited content, or simply fit within the existing table.


If you want to select table data and make that tab delimited text, you copy the cell data to the clipboard, and insert a Text box. Paste into the Text box, and then cut/copy that content where you want it in the document body. You can remove the Text box. Otherwise, without the Text box, you will create another table from the clipboard content.



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Apr 16, 2020 3:52 AM in response to Avram

There is no convenience feature in Pages 10 to convert tab delimited text to table, or the obverse.


Select all of the tab delimited text, and copy to the clipboard. Open a new table, and click once on the cell where the delimited text should originate. Typically, this is the first cell of the table. Perform a simple (control+V) paste into that selected cell, and the delimited text will expand table dimensions as needed to accept the delimited content, or simply fit within the existing table.


If you want to select table data and make that tab delimited text, you copy the cell data to the clipboard, and insert a Text box. Paste into the Text box, and then cut/copy that content where you want it in the document body. You can remove the Text box. Otherwise, without the Text box, you will create another table from the clipboard content.



iWork Pages Convert Text to Table

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