Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional - Manual (Page 459)

Copying tables
You can select and copy a table to the Clipboard. You can also save it to a file that can
then be loaded or imported to another application. If you have a CSV-compliant
application on your system, such as Microsoft Excel, you can open the selected table
directly in the application. If the document is tagged, you can click a table in a PDF
document to select the entire table.
To copy a table using the Select tool:
1. Select the Select tool .
2. Hold the pointer over the table. If the pointer becomes the Table icon , click in the
table to select the entire table, or drag a box around the rows and columns to be copied.
3. Do one of the following:
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To copy the table to an open document in another authoring application, Ctrl-click
(Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) the table, and choose Copy Selected Table. Then
paste the table into the open document.
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To copy the table to a file, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the table, and
choose Save Selected Table As. Name the table, select a location and the format, and click
Save.
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To copy the table directly to a spreadsheet, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac
OS) the table, and choose Open Table in Spreadsheet. Your CSV-compliant application,
such as Excel, opens to a new spreadsheet displaying the imported table.
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To preserve formatting while copying a table to Excel, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Control-
click (Mac OS) the table, and choose Copy As Table. In Excel, use the Paste Special
command and select XML Spreadsheet.
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To copy a table in RTF, drag the selected table into an open document in the target
application.
Note: Copying tables containing Asian languages is supported.