Copy a table or table text from another program

Copy a table or spreadsheet from Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel

  1. Open the table or spread sheet you want to copy.
  2. Select the cells you want, and then press CTRL+C to copy them.
  3. Open Microsoft Publisher.
  4. On the Edit menu, click Paste.

    The Word table appears in Publisher as a table.

Copy table text from any Microsoft Windows-based program

  1. Open the program that contains the text you want.

    If the text isn’t already in a table, press TAB between each entry in a row, and ENTER at the end of each row.

  2. Select the text, and then press CTRL+C to copy it.

  3. In Microsoft Publisher, click the Table Frame Tool on the Objects toolbar.

  4. In your publication, click where you want the table to appear. 

    The Create Table dialog box will appear.

  5. Select the options you want, and then click OK.
  6. Click inside the table where you want the upper-left cell of the copied text to appear.

  7. On the Edit menu, click Paste Special.

  8. In the As list, click Table Cells With Cell Formatting, and then click OK.