Converting tables from web into a word document...

shoutman

Hey,

not sure if this is the write forum for this so apologies in advance if it isnt.

Basically what I am looking to do is somehow copy the table about economic variation from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_EU, into a word document. Can anyone tell me a quick way of doing this without having to manually do a table out and fill in the figures from the site?

cheers for the help.

edanto

I think I can help.

Open the page in IE, right click on the table and select 'export to microsoft excel'.

This is one of the three things that IE is actually useful for. Probably, there is a firefox extension, but I wouldn't bother looking.

shoutman

Cheers for the reply edanto, it would work but my excell license has expired and i dont plan on renewing it lol, is there any other way?

edanto

shoutman wrote:

Cheers for the reply edanto, it would work but my excell license has expired and i dont plan on renewing it lol, is there any other way?

there ya are fella

shoutman

Thanks a million edanto, but here is where I'm going to sound like a right ungreatful s.o.b.

The table I was talking about was below that:

Economic variation

Below is a table showing, respectively, the GDP (PPP), the GDP (PPP) per capita and the GDP (nominal) per capita for the European Union...

edanto

too bad - gotta go!

hope someone else can give you a dig out. Maybe you can find a firefox extension?

shoutman

Will do, cheers for the help.

BostonB

shoutman wrote:

Hey,

not sure if this is the write forum for this so apologies in advance if it isnt.

Basically what I am looking to do is somehow copy the table about economic variation from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_EU, into a word document. Can anyone tell me a quick way of doing this without having to manually do a table out and fill in the figures from the site?

cheers for the help.

Perhaps I'm missing something there but copy and paste works fine for me. Its just HTML and word can handle that.

shoutman

Yea Boston its the table im after and when you copy and paste it it doesnt stay in tabular form.

BostonB

shoutman wrote:

Yea Boston its the table im after and when you copy and paste it it doesnt stay in tabular form.

Does for me but maybe I'm not understanding what you want. I uploaded it here.

http://www.creativearray.com/docs/

netopia

I think the reason that perhaps you think its not in the table format is that the borders on the table are not visible. You just need to select the table and mark all the borders to be shown on the borders menu.
That should show it the way you want it
If you're not comfortable with cutting and pasting into Word, try this, save the webpage to your hard-drive. Then rightclick on the file you save and click on "open with" and select word, your webpage then opens in Word and you can save it again as a Word doc like so ....

netopia

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BostonB

How is yours different to mine?

Heinrich

If your Excel licence has run out get that stuff off your machine and download/install Open Office. It is free and works exactly as Microsoft Office!

I opened up "Writer" which is the same as Word. Then I copied (right click) the table and went to Writer. Selecting "Paste Special" pasted the table as "HTML Format" and Bob's yer uncle. The file can then be "Saved As" and chose your format!

Free...

Get your Open Office Free!!!

ps. I removed some rows to make the file fit here.