Text to Table

Converts selected text into table

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Changelog

September 20, 2022 (92F8ED) - Onetastic ★
Added option to choose delimiter

March 08, 2022 (AB968E) - Onetastic ★
Fixed a bug where macro would fail to complete if there are tags on the selected paragraphs

November 22, 2021 (C51564) - Onetastic ★
Macro no longer leaves blank lines after the table

March 04, 2019 (705973) - Onetastic ★
Now copies tags from each paragraph to the first cell in each row in the table.

May 15, 2017 (780F89) - Onetastic ★
Fixed certain cases where the table would not appear at the location of the selected paragraphs.

June 20, 2016 (BDBDC6) - Onetastic ★
Re-written with the new Macro Language to take advantage of cleaner syntax and performance improvements

These versions are no longer supported:

July 05, 2014 - Onetastic ★
Now correctly generates columns from tab characters. Original version did not generate columns

April 05, 2014 - Onetastic ★
Initial version

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GUIguy - 2026-06-03

I'm using "Text to Table" to create a box around selected text to act as a "supera-header." I would like to be able to change font formatting with the same macro, like adding bold, color, etc.

Is that possible? I'm not a developer, just an enthusiastic user.

Paul Feldman - 2022-06-22

Add a popup box that asks for a column delimiter. Put each bit of text in a separate column. So for example if there's raw data that looks like:

Alpha: $10m
Beta: $12m
Gamma: $5m

The user would select a colon as the delimiter, and that would create a 2-column, 3-row table. Thank you.

Robert Jacobson - 2021-12-03

I have one problem with this macro -- it modifies the entire page. For me that's a problem because I often have multiple people editing sections of the page. OneNote marks those sections with their initials.

When I run this macro, I then "own" all of the page; the information for other users editing page sections is lost.

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julien - 2018-08-01

works like a charm but I would appreciate a version able to conserve the tags !

Wim - 2018-07-12

Later. I started testing with some other text and it works. So I think the problem is that there is some formatting in my text that disturbs the macro.
I copied the text to notepad and copied it back. And now it works as expected. Thanks for the macro.

Wim - 2018-07-12

I try to use this macro by selecting some text in a note and execute this macro.
This gives me the following error. Can you help me with this?

Macro contains an error.
Expected an object at first parameter of GetAncestorOfType

pseudonym - 2017-05-10

I'm sorry for delay in reply. Thank you, have just emailed.

Omer Atay - 2017-05-07

pseudonym: Please e-mail support@getonetastic.com so that we can troubleshoot.

pseudonym - 2017-05-07

Selected (highlight) four lines of text with two tab separators in each line (so, three columns intended).
Ran "text to table", seems to scan entire page not just highlighted text.
After some time, my text is deleted.
I created macro log but don't know how to interpret.
I am using latest Onetastic 3.4.0 x86 and latest version of text to table macro.
OneNote is from Office Professional Plus 2013 x86.
Machine is Win7 Pro Sp1 64-bit.
Thanks for any help!

Felipe - 2016-08-21

Same problem here, just trying to make tables out of some sentences.

Junkfunnel - 2016-08-05

Hi Omer: There's nothing special about the text I'm trying to convert. For a simple test case, I've just used a single word on each of several lines. One additional piece of information that may be helpful: I sometimes get an error message that the "COM Surrogate has stopped working." Does that help?

Omer Atay - 2016-08-03

Junkfunnel: I cannot reproduce the crash. Is there anything specific about the text you are trying to convert?

Junkfunnel - 2016-08-03

Running this macro crashes OneTastic on my machine (Windows 7). After running the macro, I have to manually terminate the OneNote process. When I relaunch OneNote, the OneTastic plug is missing and has to be reinstalled.

I have OneNote 2010 and have upgraded to the latest version of OneTastic. Anyone else seeing this issue?

Mike Josephson - 2016-03-28

Very useful macro. Thank you.
I however am experiencing the same behavior as Adam where the formatted table is moved to the top of the page.

Mark - 2016-01-13

This macro works fine when a text is brought from an external source where the tabs are added. in OneNote if you use the tab it will generate a table and cells.
I think it could be cool to ask what char to use for the table creation such as commas or anything the user likes.

Adam P - 2015-07-08

Is this text supposed to be moved to the top of the document when it adds the table? I should probably mention that I'm using Office 2016 Preview, so I I understand it's not technically supported, but so far this is the first macro or Onetastic feature I've seen that behaves oddly.

Omer Atay - 2014-07-05

This macro now correctly generates columns from tab characters. Original version did not generate columns.

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