convert text to table

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convert text to table

I have a Macbook Pro 17" early 2011, 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

macOS Sierra version 10.12.6

Pages version 7.1 (5683)

I went to Help>Pages help, and typed in "text to table". In the window that opened, I went to "All Other Help (63)", Working with Tables. Clicked on that link. In the window that opened, there is an option that says "Convert text into a table and vice versa, and I clicked on the link "Converting Text to a Table". In the window that opened, it said this:

Here are ways to convert between text and tables:

To convert text to a table, select the text, and choose Format > Table > “Convert Text to Table.”When Pages encounters a paragraph return, it creates a new row. When Pages encounters a tab stop, it creates a new column.
To convert a table to text, select the table, and choose Format > Table > “Convert Table to Text.”

I said, "Hooray", and went back to Pages version 7.1 (5683)

I selected text, chose Format >Table > , and then......

There's no "Convert Text to Table" option.

Can someone tell me how to convert Text to Table in Pages version version 7.1 (5683)

Please!

Bobby

MacBook Pro, macOS Sierra (10.12.1), 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7

Posted on Jul 24, 2018 7:00 PM

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Answer 1

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Barry

Level 9

59,951 points

Jul 24, 2018 10:42 PM in response to radsinger

Hi Bobby,

The Help document you read was written for Pages '09 (aka Pages 4.x), where what you want was accomplished with this menu item:

Apple did a grounds-up rewrite of Pages for version 5, and Text to Table was one of the more that 100 features of the previous version not to be found in the new application carrying the same name. Some have been included since then, others, including this one, are still missing.

The original depended on your having tab-separated values, with each line/row separated from the next with a return.

If you have that type of text, you can paste it into an open table in Pages, or paste it into an open table in Numbers, then copy that table and paste it into a Pages document.

If memory serves, Numbers or Pages or both now give you an opportunity to specify the separators if they are not tabs. Confirmation of that may come later from someone using Pages 7.1 or Numbers 5.1.

Regards,

Barry

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Yellowbox

Level 7

21,125 points

Jul 24, 2018 11:56 PM in response to radsinger

Hi Bobby,

Barry wrote: If memory serves, Numbers or Pages or both now give you an opportunity to specify the separators if they are not tabs. Confirmation of that may come later from someone using Pages 7.1 or Numbers 5.1.

Tested in Pages 7.1

I selected this tab-separated text in Pages, copied and pasted into a table.