Selecting Table

When you use the Select tool and select table text. your options include Copy As Table, Save As Table, and Open Table in Spreadsheet. These options appear in a pop-up or context menu.

A problem you may encounter when trying to copy or export table data is that Acrobat may not recognize your table as table data. Inasmuch as you're looking at a table, it may have been formatted in the authoring program in such a way that Acrobat can't see the data as a table or the file may not be tagged properly.

As a workaround, you can select the text with the Select tool and choose Copy with Formatting from a context menu. Paste the copied text in Word and it should be reconized as a table. You can then get the Word data to Excel if you want to work with it in a spreadsheet. (Note that pasting directly from Acrobat to Excel most likely won't work —you first need to go through Word).

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The main problem is the convience of the Table Select tool seems to be missing. Is there anything that forces Acrobat to select text from only a specified area? For example, in the table below, I am able to select text, but when pasted it shows up as "Data from 5 1998-2000 Data from 10 2001-2005". I used to be able to at least select it by column. Now I have to hope that Acrobat can recognize it as a column. Is there any equivalent to the user-defined Column and Table select tools? It seems silly that I have to break out the Adobe Pro 5.5.

YEARS Number
Data from 5
1998-2000
Data from 10
2001-2005

Press the Control (Win) or Command (Mac) key and you can select columns and rows.

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