{"id":640,"date":"2017-08-31T23:14:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T23:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/?p=640"},"modified":"2019-02-07T04:38:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T04:38:47","slug":"retain-multi-line-cells-when-pasting-word-table-into-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/?p=640","title":{"rendered":"Retain multi-line cells when pasting Word table into Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/forum\/office_2007-excel\/retain-multi-line-cells-when-pasting-word-table\/c16c4831-a9c7-47b8-8d0d-94ef53c3cbdd?auth=1\" href=\"https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/forum\/office_2007-excel\/retain-multi-line-cells-when-pasting-word-table\/c16c4831-a9c7-47b8-8d0d-94ef53c3cbdd?auth=1\">https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/forum\/office_2007-excel\/retain-multi-line-cells-when-pasting-word-table\/c16c4831-a9c7-47b8-8d0d-94ef53c3cbdd?auth=1<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In Word, select the table. <\/p>\n<p>Press Ctrl+H to activate the replace dialog. <\/p>\n<p>Enter ^p in the Find what box. <\/p>\n<p>Enter some text that doesn&#8217;t occur otherwise in the Replace with box, for example @@@@. <\/p>\n<p>Click Replace All and don&#8217;t allow it to continue beyond the table. <\/p>\n<p>Close the Replace dialog. <\/p>\n<p>Copy \/ paste the table into Excel. <\/p>\n<p>Press Ctrl+H to activate the replace dialog. <\/p>\n<p>Enter @@@@ (or whatever you used in Word) in the Find what box. <\/p>\n<p>Press Alt+0010 in the Replace with box. <\/p>\n<p>Click Options &gt;&gt; and make sure that the &#8220;Match entire cell contents&#8221; check box is clear. <\/p>\n<p>Click Replace All. <\/p>\n<p>You may have to format the cells to wrap text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/forum\/office_2007-excel\/retain-multi-line-cells-when-pasting-word-table\/c16c4831-a9c7-47b8-8d0d-94ef53c3cbdd?auth=1 In Word, select the table. Press Ctrl+H to activate the replace dialog. Enter ^p in the Find what box. Enter some text that doesn&#8217;t occur otherwise in the Replace with box, for example @@@@. Click Replace All and don&#8217;t allow it to continue beyond the table. Close the Replace dialog. Copy \/ paste [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}