How do you convert text to a table or a table to text?

• A. To convert text to a table: select text > Insert > Table > Convert Text to Table; to convert a table to text: select table > Table Tools Layout > Convert to Text
• B. To convert text to a table: select text > Table > Convert Text to Table
• C. To convert text to a table: select text > Insert > Table > Convert Text to Table; to convert a table to text: select table > Table Tools Layout > Convert to Text
• D. To convert text to a table: select text > Convert Text to Table

Answer: (C)

In Word, turning between text and tables uses two specific commands that are found in different parts of the Ribbon. To turn text into a table, you first select the text, then go to the Insert tab, choose Table, and pick Convert Text to Table. Word will ask you how many columns to create and which delimiters (such as tabs or commas) separate the data in each row, so the conversion builds the table correctly from the chosen structure.

To change a table back into text, you select the table, then use the Table Tools Layout tab that appears when a table is selected, and choose Convert to Text. Here you can pick how the rows should be separated in the resulting text (for example, by tabs or by paragraph marks). This path is different from the text-to-table path because it starts from a table rather than plain text, and it determines how the table’s cells are merged into a linear text format.