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Selecting Table

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2007-06-19 09:55:21
sierrachang
Registered: Jun 19 2007
Posts: 3

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 1998-2000 5
Data from 2001-2005 10

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 7.0.9, Windows
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2007-06-24 16:09:41
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tedpadova
ExpertTeam
Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
To select table data in columns or rows, click the Select tool and press Option/Control. the cursor icon changes to display a small rectangle around the I-beam. Drag through a column or row to select the data.

When exporting data to excel, you may need to first paste the data in Word to retain certain formats.

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.

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