Conversion of Materials list DOC files to Spreadsheet format

[John Raabe]

One of our members wanted to make such a conversion to provide for more control over accumulating prices.

Some word processors may have all the math functions you need built into their table editing features but here is the method that worked for a recent member:



Thanks to Mike.

PS - I just tried this method with my ancient MS Office 97 - the paste special worked great between Word and Excel --- a few more keystrokes and you can build formulas and copy them down a page to track your costs in another column.