From the course: Copilot in Word: Create and Refine Documents with AI

Convert text to tables

From the course: Copilot in Word: Create and Refine Documents with AI

Convert text to tables

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- [Instructor] If you think some text in your document would be better presented as a table, instead of you having to manually create a table and copy and paste your text into it, Copilot can do this for you. I'm currently working with a version of the annual self-evaluation document we generated earlier, and here under the Guidelines for Writing your Self-Review section, we have several bullet points. Each bullet point has a step followed by an explanation or example of how to follow that step. Let's see if this information can be more effective when presented as a table. So, I'm just going to select that entire list. I'll click the Copilot icon, and choose Visualize as a Table. And there it is, Copilot has taken that information and converted it into a table with a column for the Steps and a column for the Details of each step. And as always, you can click the Regenerate button if you wanted to take another try. And you can see in this case, it actually benefited me because now I see we have three columns, Step, Action and Details. So, if it didn't do quite what you wanted, you can always click that Regenerate button and see if it does a better job. And as always, you can toggle between the versions to see which one you like, and you can also further add to the table using the prompt area. For example, maybe I'll say Add an empty fourth column because maybe I have an idea for another column I can add to this table. And there it is. And I'll click Keep it, and now I have this table in my document. So, that's how to use Copilot to convert text into a table in Word.

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