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Trying to get remove table formatting
I have a large document (9000 pages) I am working on. It has been OCR'd from original files. Sometimes there are errant tables included. I've tried to find a way to remove the tables without affe...
Noone_Important With the selection in the table, go to the Layout tab of the ribbon (the one to the right of Table Design), and click on "Convert to Text".
In the next dialog, select the character to be used to separate the text. If the first one that you select does not give the desired result, BEFORE doing anything else, click on Undo and then try a different character. Tabs will usually work best, but not always.
It's possible that the table you're seeing is actually an image, not text. If that's the case, you can try using an image editing program to remove it.
If the table is actually text, you can try using a regular expression to remove it. For example, the following regular expression will remove all instances of the table in the image you provided:
