How to Convert table to text?
Mac Pages
iMac 24″, macOS 13.4
Mac Pages
iMac 24″, macOS 13.4
No version of Pages since Pages '09 has offered the simple menu items to convert table to text or the reverse. One has to do it manually.
Select the cells of the table that are intended to become text. Copy that selection to the clipboard. Choose View menu : Show Invisibles.
Insert a new Text box and enlarge appropriately. In the Arrange panel, set Text Wrap to None, so you can move the Text box around. Click in the Text box to select the placeholder text (it changes to salmon color), and then paste into the Text box. Each cell of each former table row will be separated by a blue right-arrow symbol indicating a tab character.
Now, you select the entire contents of the Text Box and cut, then paste elsewhere in your Body text and that concludes converting the table content to text. You can remove the Text box, and optionally choose to remove the table if it is no longer needed.
If you also happen to have MS Word installed, you can select the table cells to convert to text and copy to the clipboard. Then, open a new document in MS Word and simply paste. This forms a new table with the clipboard contents. From the Word Table menu, you choose Convert > Convert Table to Text… and a dialog will appear offering you a choice of how the text is separated and then click OK. This literally replaced the table in word with the corresponding cell content.
Here is an earlier post where I described the process of converting text to table in Pages v13.2 and Sonoma 14.0. It is an animated png image showing the process.
How to Convert table to text?