I did just now find that if, in Word 2003, I click Convert > Table to Text > Separate text with - Paragraph marks the resulting XLS doc. is very similar to my Word table (see attached). I have approx. 120 tables per Word doc. so it would be great if the process could be automated.
I can't upload an .xls file so please see my screen shot.
“If Ernest Hemingway was going to go big-game hunting in Africa, Hunter S. Thompson wanted to use a submachine gun to hunt wild boar in Big Sur, Calif. He was dangerous, like handling nitroglycerin, and he liked to keep it that way.”
Douglas Brinkley, executor of the Thompson estate