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Column to Text
Turn an aligned or pipe table back into clean delimited lines such as CSV or TSV.
Join columns back into lines
Your delimited lines will appear here.
No table joined yet.
How to use the Column to Text
- Paste the aligned table, pipe table or tab separated block.
- Choose how the columns should be recognised and the delimiter you want back.
- Press Join into lines and copy the delimited result.
Features
- Reads pipe, tab and space aligned tables
- Any output delimiter including tab and semicolon
- Quotes cells that contain the delimiter
- Runs locally, nothing uploaded
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the free online column to text.
Paste the table, set the output delimiter to comma and press Join into lines to get comma
separated rows.
Pipe tables, tab separated blocks and columns aligned with two or more spaces are all
recognised.
It looks at each line and picks pipe, tab or space splitting based on the characters it
finds.
Yes. Lines made only of dashes, plus signs, pipes and spaces are treated as borders and
skipped.
Quoting keeps a cell that itself contains the delimiter safe, which matters for spreadsheet
imports.
Yes. Choose tab as the output delimiter and each row becomes a tab separated line ready for a
spreadsheet.
No. Everything is processed in your browser, so the table stays on your device.
Yes. The converter is responsive and works on phones, tablets and desktop browsers.
Last updated: October 10, 2026