Convert table to text Pages 10 (6748)...

Pages 10 lacks any convenient feature to convert table to text, or the obverse.

Table to Text

1. Insert a new Text box (TB), and from the Arrange panel, set Text Wrap to None, so you can drag the TB away from the table.
2. Select the cells to convert to text from the table, and copy to the clipboard.
3. Click inside the TB, and then paste your table cells. If you have show invisibles on, you will see that the former table cells are now separated by tab marks within the TB.
4. Select the contents of the TB, and copy/paste into your Document body.

Text to Table

1. Enter text separated by tabs where each future table column is surrounded by tabs except that last. Enter another row in the same fashion until you are done with rows.
2. Select all of the tab delineated text, and copy to the clipboard
3. Insert a new table object.
4. Click once on the first cell where you want your text inserted, and it will automatically expand the rows and columns to match the imported text content.

Hi Harry,

There was another popular word processing and page layout application for Macintosh that could do this with a menu command. But that one, named Pages '09 was discontinued in 2010.

Its name, Pages, was assigned to a newly created word processing and page layout application that was introduced as Pages v5, and is currently known as Pages 10. The new application was missing several features supported by the previous one. Some have since been added to the new software, some new ones have been added as well.

Text to Table and Table to Text isn't one of them.

To convert a Table to Text:

• Select the cells you want to convert.
• Copy.
• Click the Text button in the button bar to open a new Text Box
• Click in the placeholder text, then Paste.
• The result will be a tab delimited list of the items copied.

• To replace the tas with a different character (I used a space) select and copy one of the tabs (left box),
• Press command-F to open Find and Replace
• Paste the tab in the Find box.
• Place the character to replace it in the Replace with box.
• Click the > to find the first tab. (It will get a bright yellow .container')
• Repeatedly click 'Replace and Find' to replace the rest

• • Noe that Replace All will replace ALL tabs in the document with the replacement character, NOT just the ones in the selected text box.

Regards,

Barry

Another slighly more automated approach is to copy the tab separated text from Pages 10 to LibreOffice Writer, and from its Table menu, select Convert Text to Table. Then copy/paste the table from LO into Pages. That works with Pages 10 and

LibreOffice v6.4.3.2.