In message , Richard J.
writes

I tried with one of the SWT timetables. You can cut and paste, but the
content gets garbled extensively in the process. Even the Column Select
tool doesn't seem to be much use, as it ignores blank entries in the
column. Text Select does the same horizontally. Possibly a Visual Basic
program could be written to disentangle it, but it doesn't look at all
easy.

Surely it would be better to invest in one of the conversion utilities
available, given the extent of the job?

Able2Extract (A2E) is one of those that claims to convert from PDF to
Excel (I've not tried it myself):

http://www.investintech.com/able2extract.html

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Paul Terry