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Converting a Word document into an Excel one

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    Question Converting a Word document into an Excel one

    I have a Word document with the following repeating layout.

    Heading 1
    124
    Heading 2
    Monster, but in reality, occular, but, twenty four horses in kindness of love of the saint of buddha. Men in green trousers up the valley discovered the mouse of cordless. Wireless. 1245 Hi.
    Heading 3
    $123,425-$1,566,109
    Heading 4
    123 Fake St. Middle of Nowhere, Empty Country

    Then a new entry starts, and so on. Not all entries have all the headings. E.g., a few might be missing heading 2 or 4. There are also more than 4 headings, but that is irrelevant.

    How could I convert this mishmash of types of cells (number, address, text) into an Excel chart? The same headings can be conserved.

    Thanks a lot.

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    Damon Longworth
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    RE: Converting a Word document into an Excel one

    It will be hard for anyone to provide any valuable help without a real
    understanding of your data. For these kinds of problems, hypothetical
    examples don't help unless they represent every possible variation in the
    actual data set.

    Is there any consistency in the data? For example, the address falls on
    every 5th row.

    Without consistency you will need a custom program that will look for
    certain identifiers (if there are any) to indicate a field location.

    "Rageaholic" wrote:

    >
    > I have a Word document with the following repeating layout.
    >
    > HEADING 1
    > 124
    > HEADING 2
    > Monster, but in reality, occular, but, twenty four horses in kindness
    > of love of the saint of buddha. Men in green trousers up the valley
    > discovered the mouse of cordless. Wireless. 1245 Hi.
    > HEADING 3
    > $123,425-$1,566,109
    > HEADING 4
    > 123 Fake St. Middle of Nowhere, Empty Country
    >
    > Then a new entry starts, and so on. Not all entries have all the
    > headings. E.g., a few might be missing heading 2 or 4. There are also
    > more than 4 headings, but that is irrelevant.
    >
    > How could I convert this mishmash of types of cells (number, address,
    > text) into an Excel chart? The same headings can be conserved.
    >
    > Thanks a lot.
    >
    >
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    Question

    That's my issue.

    As I said in my original post, there is almost no consistency.
    The document that I need to convert is available at the following URL.

    Thanks again.

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