Father called. Had a problem. He needed to delete a table that he started entering data into, but didn't want to go through and cut and paste data from every row and place it outside the table and then delete the table. A quick search found little results for OpenOffice.org but a couple for Word. So I decided to post this built-in trick that many might not know about.

If you have a table in OpenOffice.org Word Processor and want to delete the table with out deleting the data,

select Table > Convert > Table to Text...,

then select whether you have the data spaced out by tabs, semicolons, paragraphs or other (if you're not sure, keep the default),

and viola! You have removed the table without sacrificing your data.

Hope this helps!