Convert Table to Text in Pages 8

Hi lm'

Current versions of Pages do not have the convenient Table to Text conversion available in the now archaic '09 version.

Here are one way to do the conversion:

Copy the contents of the table.

• Select any cell in the table with a singe click.
• press command-A to Select All.
• press command-C to Copy.

Paste the contents into a text box.

• Click the Text button in Pages' tool bar to insert a text box in the document.
• Drag the box to a clear spot, then click inside the box.
• Press command-V to paste the copied text into the box.

Your text box will now contain text values separated by tabs, with rows separated by returns.

You can use command-F to find \t (tabs) and replace with ', ' (comma space — without the quotes) if desired.

Regards,

Barry

Thought I would mention that LibreOffice Writer v6.4.0 (current 2020-02-06) has a Table menu : Convert > [table to text||text to table] capability that converts in-place. A table, when copy/pasted from LibreOffice Writer becomes a table in Pages v8.2.1, and the text from a table converted to text in LibreOffice Writer, is pasted into Pages as text, not converted into a table.