Hi,
In Word, there is no such settings or button to directly select all tables at once.
Maybe some codes can be used for your requirement. I found the following article provide a code about select all tables in a document:
https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/word/639-word-select-all-tables.html
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It indicates that we can use a VBA code to select all tables in the document :
Step 1: Press “Alt-F11” to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window;
Step 2: Click Module on the Insert tab, copy and paste the following VBA code into the Module window;
Sub selecttables()
Dim mytable As Table
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
For Each mytable In ActiveDocument.Tables
mytable.Range.Editors.Add wdEditorEveryone
Next
ActiveDocument.SelectAllEditableRanges (wdEditorEveryone)
ActiveDocument.DeleteAllEditableRanges (wdEditorEveryone)
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
Step 3: Save the VBA file and then close the Module window;
Step 4: Click Run Macro on the Run tab;
Step 5: Select the saved VBA file and click Run button.
If you still have any further issue about it, it is better to ask a question in
Word for Developers forum for more help.
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Winnie Liang
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It is easy to select a table in Word by clicking the 
button on the upper left corner of the table as below screenshot shown. You can also select a table with the Select Table feature. However, is there any way to quickly select all tables at once in Word document? The methods in this article will help you to get through it.
Select all tables in Word with VBA code
Easily select all tables in Word with Kutools for Word
Select all tables in Word with VBA code
1. Press Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window.
2. In the opening Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, click Insert > Module, Then copy and paste the following VBA code into the Module window;
VBA code: Select all tables in current document:
Sub selecttables()
Dim mytable As Table
For Each mytable In ActiveDocument.Tables
mytable.Range.Editors.Add wdEditorEveryone
Next
ActiveDocument.SelectAllEditableRanges (wdEditorEveryone)
ActiveDocument.DeleteAllEditableRanges (wdEditorEveryone)
End Sub3. Press the F5 key to run the code
Then all tables are selected in current document immediately.
Easily select all tables in Word with Kutools for Word
Comparing with using a VBA code to select all tables in a document, Kutools for Word’s Select Tables utility is quite handy. You can use this feature to select tables in a selection or the whole document. Please do as follows:
Kutools for Word : With more than 100 handy Word add-ins, free to try with no limitation in 60 days.
Click Kutools > Tables > Select Tables. See screenshot:
Note: For selecting tables in selection, you need to select the range firstly and then apply the feature.
Then you can see the results as follows.
Select tables in selection:
Select tables in the whole document:
If you want to have a free trial of this utility, please go to free download the software first, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.
Demo: Easily select all tables in Word with Kutools for Word
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I have a Word document with captions on tables, and the tables have cheat sheet values. How to create a macro that detects all tables (ActiveDocument.GetCrossReferenceItems(Referencetype:="Table")), and transfer the tables into a new document?
The MS Word documencation nor the autocomplete were helping.
asked Dec 3, 2011 at 3:46
This procedure copies all tables from the active document and pastes into a new document:
Sub CopyAllTablesToNewDoc()
Dim docSource As Document
Dim docDest As Document
Dim tbl As Table
Set docSource = ActiveDocument
Set docDest = Documents.Add
For Each tbl In docSource.Tables
tbl.Range.Copy
docDest.Paragraphs(docDest.Paragraphs.Count).Range.Paste
docDest.Range.InsertParagraphAfter
Next tbl
End Sub
Note: it does not copy the table captions.
answered Dec 3, 2011 at 7:29
Rachel HettingerRachel Hettinger
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I’m going to tell you a secret. docx files are essentially renamed zip files with some xml mixed in to handle asset placement.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa982683%28v=office.12%29.aspx
I’ve never tried to handle it myself, but with enough poking around with zip and xml you should find what you need.
answered Dec 3, 2011 at 3:59
Andrew T.Andrew T.
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I’m trying to process some large MS Word documents and I have a question. My MS Word documents have a bunch of tables in them, separated by various lines of text. I need to find all of the tables that have a specific word in them, and convert these tables
to text. The other tables in the document (that do not contain the specified text) need to be deleted. I was trying to use the Selection.Find.Text when true in an «IF» statement, but the code doesn’t seem to behave like I want.Here is my code:
Sub Delete_Tables_Auto()
‘
‘ Macro to select tables in word document one at a time, searches for text,
‘ if string is found, converts table. If string is not found, table is deleted
‘
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
‘ Deletes all headersDim s As Section
For Each s In ActiveDocument.Sections
s.Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range.Text = «»
s.Headers(wdHeaderFooterEvenPages).Range.Text = «»
s.Headers(wdHeaderFooterFirstPage).Range.Text = «»
s.Footers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range.Text = «»
s.Footers(wdHeaderFooterEvenPages).Range.Text = «»
s.Footers(wdHeaderFooterFirstPage).Range.Text = «»
Next sFor Each atable In ActiveDocument.Tables
atable.SelectSelection.Find.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Forward = True
.ClearFormatting
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchCase = False
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
End WithIf (Selection.Find.Text = «Document No.») Then
atable.Rows.ConvertToText Separator:=wdSeparateByParagraphs
Else
MsgBox «deleting table»
atable.Delete
End IfNext atable
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
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select all tables
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You can’t. Whatever you want to do to the tables would have to be done via Table Styles (assuming they share properties controlled by a common Style) or iteratively.
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copy all table from word to excel i have a word decoument (tables, word, draw) i need only tables to copy them and paste them in excel file can this problem done by vba either from word or excel vba
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Yes, you can do it from either Excel or Word. The most appropriate app to do it from depends on what your needs are but, if there’s more than one document at a time involved, I would usually prefer to do it from Excel.
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how can i do it
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Since you haven’t said what the scope of the task is (e.g. how many tables, how they’re formatted, how many documents are involved, where in the workbook the tables are to go, or anything else relevant), no one can tell you that. We’re not mind-readers and you really haven’t given any details…
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