Copying tables in pdf's to excel in Acrobat Standard 7.0.8

Hi there
I am having problems copying tables of numbers from pdf's into excel in Acrobat Standard 7.0.8. I am finding that when I select data in a table, right-click, and select 'Copy As Table', only about 50% of the time will the data be pasted correctly into appropriate rows and columns in Excel. The rest of the time the all of the data is pasted into a single cell making it impossible to work with.
I have tried various permutations of the settings under Edit > Preferences > General > Selection for 'Text Selection Margin' and 'Column Selection Margin', although have never found anything that fixes the problem.
The unusual thing is that I used to have Acrobat version 5, in which copying data from pdf's to excel used to work *perfectly*.
Does anyone have any suggestions about how to fix this feature in version 7? Your thoughts much appreciated. Thanks.
LK

It only copies correctly if you have a table that was created with the proper markup. It sounds like some of the tables you have appear to be tables, but are missing the markup. As I understand the process in the current Acrobat versions, you will not be able to create the fields correctly in that case.
With AA5 (or maybe it was AA6), you could select a column much like selecting a graphic. That is no longer available, but would have met your need. Bill

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