So, my table contains paragraph returns, and I want to maintain them, but paste my data to Excel.

Anybody want to write a routine that'll:

In Word
Select the table in which the cursor resides (Table-Select-table)
Find all paragraph returns (type ^p into find/replace or use that chr, I forget)
Replace with some oddball character like the pipe
Copy the table contents to the clipboad and wait for user to choose paste

In Excel
Paste