Hi Sue, Well, here's what I did and it seemed to work, though I didn't actually try to change a table to text. Place your cursor somewhere in the table, anywhere inside the table is fine. Press alt plus a to open the tables menu. Press the letter v to get to the "convert" sub menu. Tabbing here will give you options, the first is "convert to table", the second is "convert to text". Hit enter on " convert to text." Now you should be sitting on a radio button that says "tabs". If you down arrow here, you'll see a radio button labeled "commas". If you tab from that button to "ok" and hit enter, your table should be now in a text format with the columns in the table now separated by a comma and a space. We didn't choose "tabs" as Bookshare's conversion tools remove all tabs, and the text would have become run together if we chose that option. I think that's how the tables dialogue works anyway. If that doesn't work, ask again! Mayrie _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sue Stevens Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 10:49 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Converting Tables Hi folks, The book I am proofing has some tables, and it is almost impossible to read the text, although the text is there. Is there a way to get rid of the table symbols so that the text will be easily read? I am working in MSWord 2010 with Jaws 12. Thanks, Sue S.